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Excerpt from A Primer of Spoken English
The comparative purity and correctness of the different varieties of spoken English is popularly estimated by the degree of approximation to the written language. But these comparisons are generally carried out in a one sided and partial spirit. When an Englishman hears the distinct r and gfi in the Broad Scotch fartfier, might, etc., he is apt to assume at once that Scotch English is more archaic than Southern English; but if he looks at the evidence on the other side, such forms as ab az' oo=all one wool will make him more inclined to believe what is the truth, namely that standard spoken English is, on the whole, quite as archaic, quite as correct and pure as any of its dialects - a truth which before the rise of modern philological dilettanteism and dialect-sentimentality no one ever thought of disputing.
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