Michael Everson wrote:
>
> 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.

RP? GenAm?
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