I always thought you could rhyme Orange with Losenge, depending on your spoken dialect of course!

I agree with Forbes. It seems to me that the problem is not so much Standard English, which is, or should be, a democratic, common denominator for second language speakers (not to mention for native speakers who also speak other varieties of

History of English Language-Funny or reality? In the beginning, there was an island off the coast of Europe. It had no name, for the natives had no language, only a collection of grunts and gestures that roughly translated to Hey!Gimme!, and

I noticed that this question is tagged as unanswered. Received pronunciation is so named because it was 'received by', i.e. taught to public school pupils and RADA pupils. ( RADA = Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts ). You can hear example in

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I know the correct pronunciation of sword. I also know that at least some blacks pronounce the w in it. (Mahalia Jackson certainly does in her marvellous rendition of the song Down By The Riverside.) As the word existed in Old English, it is

Dear friends, I have been struggling with a movie which has not script. I have do decipher all words and make subtitle. In this sense, I need a native person who can listen the wav files which lasts 30 sec to 1 min to decipher for me. those

<In their function as educators, they spill red ink on the essays of native speakers who use dialect or non-standard forms, give them low marks , and thus prevent them from progressing in our society. > Do you mean in teaching Linguistics?

The way the standard is taught is not "all important" - or at least if people who fail to use the standard are harshly penalized that is the important thing, and not what educators theorize about. In reality, in all our education systems

I think everybody code-switches to some degree, as long as there is some sort of reason to do so in their society. It doesn't mean they use two dialects just as a bilingual uses two languages, because people often respond to dialect as if it