Was listening to the coverage of the earthquake in China over the past number of weeks, and thought I heard a change in the standard pronunciation and spelling for a province in China I visited a few years ago from the announcers on NPR. As a 40-something, it got me thinking about who sets the rules we all should follow (at least here in the Northeast) on things like this, once we're done with school.
I cite employers, NPR (Jeff Nunnberg in particular - I commute quite a bit), BBC, Microsoft (courtesy of their spelling and grammar checking products), my local newspaper (via the web), and a few of the authors I've read over the past number of years.
I'm curious to know what other folks here in the US Northeast (I live/work outside Albany), or elsewhere, cite. No Sorbonne for Northeast English, so does anything go once you're a grown-up in New York?
- April05
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