Variation in english

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Evans
Aboriginees study- found 250 dialects within society and more words than west for taxonomic biology
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Cheshire
National curriculum written by highly educated people and therefore search patterns in informal situations may not reflect this
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Brown and Yule
People who write about language are mainly middle aged educated men who do not reflect general view
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Lakoff
Presriptivism vs descriptivism is different in different areas as some where judgement before language may be more descriptivist.
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Meechan and Foley
Careful introspection fail to filter prescriptive grammar
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Carter and McCarthy
Grammatical style may vary dependant on genre
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Alego
Americans ruining English
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Trudgill
What is standard English?
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Giles
Dependant on formal or informal context
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Milroy
Impact of social situations on grammatical patterns
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Trudgill and Cheshire
9-12% speak standard
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