> Robin Chapman <rjc@ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > >> No, I do the standard thing which is to call standard English standard >> English and I eschew the non-standard practice of referring to >> "nothing particularly standard" as standard. > > People do indeed get peculiarly attached to their particular variety > of English, and all hot and bothered about other common varieties.
They do indeed, while it is much easier just to use standard English.
-- Robin Chapman, www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~rjc/rjc.html "Elegance is an algorithm" Iain M. Banks, _The Algebraist_
