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Latest post Wed, Jul 8 2009 11:01 PM by Forbes. 1 replies.
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Anonymous  +  800459 Mon, 29 Jun 09 08:57 AM

 So is Standard English also a dialect, then?

 

 

(English is "A language so widely distributed naturally has many varieties. These are known

as dialects.1 That word doesn’t apply just to rural or uneducated forms of speech;

the way we use it here, everyone speaks a dialect. And naturally, this book doesn’t

try to describe all the different dialects of English there are. It concentrates on one

central dialect that is particularly important: the one that we callStandard English.

 

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Best answer by Forbes  +  811969 Wed, 08 Jul 09 11:01 PM
Standard English is a dialect. Other varieties of English have not devleoped from Standard English, but rather they and Standard English have developed from a common ancestor.
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