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Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: United States Indenpendence Day (4 July) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 21:28:25 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Message-ID: <v68ec1$37u9s$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:28:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8c2071ea0c707303df2523974c8f6291"; logging-data="3406140"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX199D/nInn6p/nmpbG6Sg0IPSAqxYrC/0U0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:mQbXMCHYAwIFG1S0gQYQNIuJWgI= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 1661 ....as everybody knows. And the linguistic angle is...well, we go back to Noah Webster: "As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are , and whose language we speak, should no longer be _our_ standard...she is at too great a distance to be our model, and to instruct us in the principles of our own tongue." (Dissertations on the English Language, 1789) More here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45738/45738-h/45738-h.htm