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pjc50 on Oct 24, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Commun...

Which set of English usage is correct, English or American?

(I once had to interpret between two "native" speakers with mutually unintelligible accents, Ulster and Africaans)

jki275 on Oct 24, 2018 [–]

Well there's also the difference between a native of the southern US and the northern US, the east and the west -- all are distinct dialects. I don't know how many US dialects there are, but I've been exposed to many of them.

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