english, the official national language

[Roger Shuy]

> >
> -David Barnhart asks:
>>
>> Can anyone confirm which dialect the pols are designating as official?  Or
>> have they not gotten around to that yet?

I solved this problem with my article in Epic Events, 1.4, 1988, reprinted
in a book by James Crawford. The article was called "Ohio English." So
there.

Roger, smugly
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