From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 13:20:24 MDT
In a message dated 5/16/2002 1:58:38 PM Central Standard Time,
jamesr@best.com writes: It should be rather obvious that written
American-English only has a passing connection to spoken American-English.
We don't write like we speak. If you use written English as the metric for
spoken American-English, you are going to find substantial discrepancies. And
even among regions there is quite a bit of variance between various
sub-dialects. It is generally stated that the Pacific Northwest region of the
US has the purest dialect, probably due to the fact that many parts of that
region were populated almost purely with British immigrants during its
formative years.
John,
Can you believe that anyone thought that you guys spoke the purest
dialect of American-English? Everybody know the best English is spoken in
Southeast Missouri.
But don't ever tell either of those things to a native Chicagoan. LOL
Ron h.
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