On Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:12:06 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote:
> > But again this comes down to another moan of mine - why is "The Queen's > > English" considered "correct", while let's say Yorkshire Dialect is > > considered "wrong", when said dialect is hundreds of years old but the > > Queen's English has probably only been around for about a century. > > Correctness is not a helpful concept in a living language, not least because > it changes from decade to decade. Besides, are you confusing Queen's > English with Received Pronunciation? Quite. As far as accents goes my understanding is they are essentially one and the same and were shaped by the Hanoverian/Saxe-Coburg-Gotha German accents of the English Royals and their courtiers. The way I see it, the Saxons won the pronunciation war over the Vikings. :-) -- Regards, Mick
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