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On May 3, 12:35*pm, Janet Baraclough >
wrote:
> The message
> >
> from spamtrap1888 > contains these words:
>
> > On May 2, 3:33*pm, "Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote:
> > > But India, Australia, the 'English' part of Canada, and the former British
> > > colonies in Africa and the Caribbean speak 'Kings English'...it's
> > > only us in
> > > the States who speak 'Merkin'.

> > Bull pucky. Only BBC announcers speak RP. In the UK, "English" changes
> > every twenty miles or so.

>
> * *You're hopelessly misinformed. *Speaking *"Queens English" refers to
> correct grammar and *vocabulary. There are still plenty of people all
> over the world speaking QE


If accent doesn't matter, then I, too, speak the Queen's English.
Except I don't make the subject-verb agreement errors that Brits do.
('Man U have won the Premiership for a third consecutive time" --
actual British sentence.) And I never use the non-word "quango" in a
sentence.