(Of course, in some people’s books, the combination of the PBS, a Canadian, and Dan Rather is unappetizing ;), but I’m interested here in the mechanics of the way the speak.)

Or so it was claimed (Midwestern as “standard”) in the 1980s PBS documentary The Story of English. On further examination, it may be a bit of a canard. Check out this PBS page on Standard American English, which explores the issue more and calls into doubt the claim it’s based on Midwestern speech. (Hey, I’m not plugging PBS, but until ABC, CBS, or NBC explore this issue, you’ve gotta go with what’s available!)

Yesterday, I was almost going to cite national newscasts as examples of “Standard American English,” but seeing as Dan Rather and Jim Lehrer are Texan and Peter Jennings is Canadian, this casts some doubt on the Midwestern theory.

Regarding British beer, I’d better not go there. I’ll just say that, being a lager man, the only beer I’ve ever drunk over in the UK was Stella (imported from Belgium) and Tiger (from Singapore, I believe)!

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Leslie

I’m Leslie and I’m new here. A similar topic came up at Dekita the other day and I want to share it with you. It is totally independent from Korea or any other country.
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Leslie ittdc@mail.tvnet.hu

All I know is that a lot of Korean students gets confused with Queens english, etc. I think the most useful english for them to learn is probably american TV english, aka midwestern english as you guys say. But this is probably discussed tons of times somewhere before so I’ll stop here.

You know, I was watching “The Office” (original BBC version) and I noticed that all these Brit characters were going, “Waaaasssaaaap~~” (out of American Budweiser commercials.) Are there any Brits who can explain to me this phenomena? I would imagine you guys have better beers to drink, and hence very little exposure to Bud commercials. Hmm..

Flame on