At 10:41 AM 8/17/2006, Stahlke, Herbert F.W. wrote: . . .
>   Leslie Mulroy argues that Standard
>English in Britain is a function of class while in the US it is more
>about race.

DD: I might demur. Jesse Jackson speaks a pretty High Standard 
English. So does Bill Cosby, when he isn't being deliberately in 
another character. The white tenants speak Lower Class English around 
here in the rural middle of the muddle of Middle Tennessee.The black 
tenants, too. There is more similarity between the different races of 
the same class, than between those of different. I do not know if 
this applies to the urban area.Still, Harold Ford of Memphis, running 
for Senate speaks the same High Standard as does his opposition. Best, DD

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