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Originally Posted by Ea
So it's up to individual schools (for example) to figure out, which guidelines and conventions to use? And basically those who can publish the most popular dictionary "wins"? It's probably fine, but it is a very strange thought for me  With no state authority it leaves 'the people' without influence. |
There is certainly influence but no regulation. The government has standards for its own publications and schools have books defining the preferred forms and of course the real authority is the built in spelling checker
Spelling is pretty standardized, new words added every year, and grammar is taught in the schools in a standardized way. The country is so large that accents and local usage does happen. The is exacerbated by the state system within the US. Individual states regulate things like text books and a teacher typically must have knowledge of the local states history including formal courses. This latter requirement causes teachers not to move between states and therefore the localization of language tends to get taught and propagated.
Dale