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There is no legitimate linguistic authority that recognizes a language or dialect called "American". Even the term "General American", used to discuss features
by kylebgorman 14y ago
There is no legitimate linguistic authority that recognizes a language or dialect called "American". Even the term "General American", used to discuss features shared by most forms of American English requires "scare-quotes" to indicate that it's an abstraction across many different dialects.