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Standard English developed from a regional dialect spoken in and around London in the fifteenth century.

The London area had become dominant in the late Middle Ages and the linguistic norms of its educated inhabitants began to be used in writing by people outside London. The dialect was selected by fifteenthcentury printers as the language of printed books. Standard English has for several centuries increasingly enjoyed a favoured status, being accepted as the correct or at least the best form of English.

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