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According to John Wells at University College London: "I do not understand the proposed distinction between Mainstream RP and Contemporary RP (unless the writer thinks, wrongly, that ‘contemporary’ means ‘young’)." You can read more of what he says about it at:...

Milky wrote: <If not his personal opinion, then whose? If someone else's, then why is there no credit given for whose opinion it is? If it is based on a statistical sample, where is the data?> So you want all descriptivists to write something such as this every time they comment on...

<If not his personal opinion, then whose? If someone else's, then why is there no credit given for whose opinion it is? If it is based on a statistical sample, where is the data?> So you want all descriptivists to write something such as this every time they comment on usage, right? "It...

English is a Germanic Language of the Indo-European Family. It is the second most spoken language in the world. It is estimated that there are 300 million native speakers and 300 million who use English as a second language and a further 100 million use it as a foreign language. It is the...