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Standard English today is not a regional variety of English but linguists classify it as a dialect in the sense that it is one variety, among many, of the English language. It is the ‘prestige dialect’ of the language with a unique status (see section 1.1).
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Freeborn, D. (1998). Early Middle English — 12th century. In: From Old English to Standard English. Studies in English Language series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26665-4_6
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