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Message: [QUOTE="Sifaka, post: 5303308, member: 8516"] Ah! The Guardian. As a (presumed) Commonwealth citizen, you are doubtless aware of its common sobriquet, “ The Grauniad”. There is certain irony to a journal famed for spelling indiscretions writing about greengrocers and their superfluous marks. Or is that marx, as in Harpo? As to the US student's hopelessly ignorant remark, people in the U.K. speak RP, and hundreds of local variants of English, Welsh, Gaelic, Scottish, etc. The notion that any one dialect of English is more correct than others is patently false. Of course my spouse, a native BE (British English) speaker, frequently reminds me that my colonial dialect is not quite so good as what's spoken across the puddle.[ATTACH type="full"]110335[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]