On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 11:56 +0200, Harald Arnesen wrote:
> Rowland Penny via Dng [30.07.2021 09:39]:
>
> > No, Chaucer == Old English
> > There is no one in England that speaks Old English in normal life
> >
> > You are quite right though, the only real English is from England,
> > the
> > rest are derivatives.
>
> "Real English" have a multitude of variants - Cockney, Yorkshire
> Dales,
> Cornwall,... - or do you mean "The Queen's English"?

They are all dialects, not variants and Cornwall has its own Celtic
language.

Cockney is a 'slang' language (apples and pears: stairs)

I will not comment on yorkshire, but it is similar to the 'lanky'
dialect I can speak, but do not normally use.

The Queen's English is also known as 'received pronunciation' and is
only used by the BBC and those idiots in the south of England.

Rowland