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<<We don't really regard Indian-English as being a proper dialect of English, merely English spoken with an Indian accent, and grammatically influenced by the persons native tongue.Standard and non-standard dialects>> A standard dialect (also known as a standardized dialect or...

No, not in the UK - they mean the same thing. "Goodbye" is slightly more formal, and we would tend to say "Bye" rather than "Bye bye" informally. I would tend to use "Bye bye" if I'm talking to a child. The person who told you this might have been thinking of French, where there is a...

Patricklui wrote: Hello I am new to here. My mother tongue is Cantonese and I like to polish my English. It's known that English has two different versions : spoken and written. I have been learning English since I was a child and my written English is not too bad because this is what I have...

Apologies if I've created controversy here! My remarks were more focussed on spoken English than written, and perhaps it's not surprising that official documents and teaching literature follow the rule more strictly, since there are always people ready to find error with officialdom! In my...

Hello Mike in Japan- Arguments claiming American English to be a “dumbed down” or “lazy” version of British English are based on the erroneous premise that American English is a perversion of British English. Any real linguist will tell you that modern British and modern American English BOTH...