Antedating of "Standard English"

Tue Jan 17 03:37:40 UTC 2006

So standard English was first spoken in America? :-)

Joel

At 1/16/2006 07:15 PM, you wrote:
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>standard English (OED 1836)
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>1829 _Virginia Literary Museum_ 9 Sept. (American Periodical Series)  The
>dialect spoken here is really more _original_ than the present standard
>English.
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>Fred Shapiro
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