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Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil. The Story of English. BBC. 1986
Rating: 3.5
[ unmissable | great stuff | worth reading | passes the time | waste of time | unfinishable ]
p13.
The line between accent, dialect
and language is not a sure or a steady one and is often
disputed, even by specialists. Is Scottish English, for instance, a
language or a dialect? The experts find it hard to be certain. It has
been said that "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy",
but my accent often turns out to be your dialect.