Englishes

A lot of the Englishes spoken by these children is slang gibberish, but it doesn't matter, because it sounds English.

Looking forward, there will be two talks: one at Bryn Mawr on translation on February 5th, and one at Haverford on Global Englishes in the Spring 2020 semester.

It has become a target precisely because of its scope, its claims to authority, its British-centredness and relative neglect of World Englishes, citation its implied but not acknowledged focus on literary language and, above all, its influence.

Learners who wish to use purportedly correct English are in fact faced with the dual standard of American English and British English, and other less known standard Englishes (including Australian, Scottish and Canadian).

Many Englishes There are many difficult choices that have to be made if there is to be further standardisation of English in the future.

These dialects are sometimes referred to as New Englishes (McArthur, p. 36); most of them inherited non-rhoticity from Southern British English.

We may, in due course, all need to be in control of two standard Englishes the one which gives us our national and local identity, and the other which puts us in touch with the rest of the human race.