On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:46:03 -0500, Peter H. Granzeau <pgranzeau at cox.net> wrote: > 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. If you're refering to _The Story of English_, I wish I had watched more of it. The book is excellent. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/