:-) mostly -- McWhorter on "standard English"

[Amy West]

Well, maybe we need to start putting "dialect" in after "Standard
English". I think I might start putting "Standard American Written
English dialect" in my composition syllabus to emphasize its
linguistic parity with Appalachian dialects, Southern dialects, etc.

---Amy West

>I'm now myself prepared to use the term "dialect", but always with the
>implicit proviso that Standard English (or American or Scots) is simply one
>dialect of the many dialects of English, with no linguistically priviledged
>position.

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