Antedating of "Standard English"

Tue Jan 17 00:15:36 UTC 2006

standard English (OED 1836)

1829 _Virginia Literary Museum_ 9 Sept. (American Periodical Series)  The
dialect spoken here is really more _original_ than the present standard
English.

Fred Shapiro

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