public school; language attitudes

[Aaron E. Drews]

I humbly stand corrected.

Acquring knowledge of the school system here (public vs. private, A-levels
vs. highers, etc) I find to be akin to Labov's take on RP broad a: it has
to be absobed as a set of brute facts from birth. :-)

--Aaron

________________________________________________________________________
Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                  Departments of English Language and
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics

"MERE ACCUMULATION OF OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE IS NOT PROOF"
        --Death