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Thanks for feedback. I think I will just give up. I was not disputing the information given, just concerned that it was difficult to understand. But now I will do other things... Cheers Sdc870 (talk)

Having reverted your edit to the MoS, I thought I’d drop by with a fuller explanation. The phrase “national variety of English” is very well-established within WP and used in a number of places within the MoS and other guidance. Changing it to “dialect” is a significant change, which would open a potential can of worms given how many English dialects there are - see List of dialects of English - I doubt anyone wants to see WP articles written in Geordie or Cockney dialect, even where there are strong ties!

With respect to Oxford English, as the WP article on its history demonstrates, this is a national variety, since it originates from the UK where it offers an alternative to the more common standard British spelling. In other respects - vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, date format, etc. - it’s identical to standard British English, and although Oxford spelling has been adopted by some international organisations such as the UN, it isn’t in use in any other country. Yes, with its combination of -ize and -our spelling, there are strong overlaps with both Canadian English and Australian English, but once you dig deeper into the spelling conventions (looking for example at words like analyse/yze and program/me) you’ll see that as a package, Oxford English is essentially a spelling variant of standard British English, and hence it isn’t inappropriate to describe it as a “national variety”. It certainly isn’t a dialect! Kind regards, MapReader (talk) 06:49, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It was Remsense (talk · contribs) who reverted to "dialect". Jc3s5h (talk) 19:36, 13 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

sure, my bad. it's not that big of a deal since people would understand what it means one way or the other—thank you very much for the involved explanation Remsense留 05:38, 14 December 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I was correcting my informational error of the commentary of the year zero talk page! Why reverted I my informational correction?

Happy Theotoca of the Betaliturgennium of 2024!

177.8.132.41 (talk) 22:29, 1 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If it isn't the same IP address, it isn't the same person. The advantage of establishing a Wikipedia account is that we can tell if the same person comes back to improve a post they made earlier. Jc3s5h (talk) 00:21, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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