At 17:11 -0400 2004-05-10, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>cowan@... wrote:
>>
>> 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!?
>
>You could have specified Standard English.

Whose standard? This isn't like an Appalachian village dialect feature.
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