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Frazer, Timothy C.; Livingston-Webber, Joan – 1992
Students of English around the world are commonly taught according to one of two models, "British" English, and "American" English. Indeed, there is a persistent popular myth (present in many linguistics and second-language texts) that a single "Midwestern" variety of American English exists. The usage of the term…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Higher Education, Language Variation, Linguistics