MrPedantic wrote: What are we to make of the fact that adult native speakers often "self-prescriptivise"? Example: "Oh, hello, MrP. MissQ was just telling Randy and me – Randy and I – about L1 acquisition." MrP I read your

In regard to the comment on Americans not having the variety or plethora of accents present in the UK, I have a mixed response. Part of me wants to be angry because that is a pretty ignorant statement, but another part wants to agree with you for

And, in some dialects (including a dwindling subset of the ... follow the vowel that whole "can't"/"pass"/"bath" sort of class. I'm tentatively describing that as "tense a" rather than

I didn't give the thorough definition of "orange" class, though: ... that may have merged with short-o in a particular dialect. Ah. Okay, by that definition I guess I don't have the class. It had sounded as though you were