At 09:39 02/02/2005, Martin Wohlert wrote: >Well, I know that with radio and TV Swedish has actually become much more >standardized in the last hundred years, and I suspect it's the same with >English. We're moving towards conformity, not away from it. Or maybe both >ways at the same time. ;) There was a recent PBS series about the English language (which, unfortunately, I only saw part of). Anyway, what I saw pointed out that the regional language is still changing, in pronunciation as well as vocabulary. The example used was the word "bus", which New Yorkers now pronounce "boss"--something that wasn't true 50 years ago. -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net