Well, let's see --

We've got:

New Zealand-English
Australian English
"Scottish" English
"Irish" English
American English (with many different variations/accents/dialects)
Canadian English ("We don't salute the leaf ! ", as I've heard one British Columbian quoted.)

.....and then of course -- we have English English -- which now must be distinguished from the rest by a double identification.

I understand the the French tend to regard the québécois as poor imitations of themselves.  Like one Parisian friend of mine who visited Quebec once said to me: "They sound funny."  And I further understand that the Parisian French tend to regard the Louisiana cajun folk claiming kinship to them as being something of an embarassment.

Also -- I've heard similar thoughts expressed concerning Castilian Spainish vs. South/Central-American Spainish.

So, it ain't jus' us poor southern folk who get our ways 'a talkin' looked down upon.  Hey -- everybody needs somebody else that they can feel superior to.  It's got something to do with human nature.  Or such has been my observation, anyway.

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