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I was raised by a Granny born in 1890. At almost 65, I can’t get rid of all the anachronistic Tidewater expressions; or quit spelling words ending in ‘-or’ as they were spelled in the old books I grew up with...

English is English. People forget where we came from, and how long it takes for language to really change all over.

(But it’s sad to me that television has made such inroads on making everyone sound and express themselves so blandly the same...)

I grew up very close to my grandparents and knew my great grandmother ( she died when I was almost 8 ), and most of her siblings. All of them and my parents and all of my relatives' friends, were well spoken, had extensive vocabularies and never "spoke down" to children. So the kids all learned to speak a certain way.

Yes, English IS English and has always been the unoffical language of this nation. And as a matter of fact, many of our regional accents are the way that the earliest colonist sounded, but is now a long gone accent in the regions that they came from in England, now.

T.V., movies, and so-called music has now lowered, into the gutter, the English language; most of now into garbles, low class ghettoese.

English is a beautiful language, filled to the brim with marvelous, expressive words, which far too few people, today ever use, because they don't even know any of them.