From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 2136
Date: 2004-05-10
>You could have specified Standard English.
> Michael Everson scripsit:
>
> > Many dialects of English have /x/. You can call English in Wales,
> > Scotland, and Ireland "contaminated" but I don't think it's right to
> > do so. The sounds have been there for centuries, and are learned in
> > infancy by native speakers.
>
> Fair enough. | Ya call that English!?