What is en_US ?

[Bryan Hepworth]

Alan Cox wrote:
>> Dialects in the UK and Ireland have all but disappeared.
>> When I was young Geordies and Glaswegians were unintelligible.
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> They are alive and well (and unintelligible). As to the US English use
> well in the UK proper it is considered a sign of poor education, lack of
> intelligence and being socially disadvantaged to speak like an American
> (unless you are one, in which case we'll feel sorry for you instead
> providing you didn't vote for Bush). Thus it does matter hugely to the
> point it determines influence, jobs and career paths.
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>> English everywhere is converging fast,
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> Linguists would disagree.
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>> and only pedants worry about the differences.
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> Pedants would disagree.
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>> Anyway, as the OP, my complaint was that 
>> Fedora should not describe the language as en_US 
>> unless there is some other variant of English on offer.
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> It should definitely say en_US because that is what it is.
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> We currently (well yesterday) have 100% coverage for en_GB, and given a
> couple of days someone could add en_CA to that list. If people will keep
> moaning I might even have to add en_SouthWales for the people who do talk
> proper.
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How Alan - Could you stick an en_Geordie in there whilst you're on 
please for us born again Geordie peeps!
> Alan
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