The English language as spoken in the southern United States of America;
The people of southern England.
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Southern American English is a group of dialects of the English language spoken throughout the Southern region of the United States, from northern Virginia and central Kentucky to the Gulf Coast, and from the Atlantic coast to central Texas.
Southern dialects are also common in areas associated with the oil industry of Alaska.
Like Australian English and EnglishEnglish, the English of the coastal Deep South is historically non-rhotic: it drops the sound of final /r/ before a consonant or a word boundary, so that guard sounds similar to god (but the former has a longer vowel than the latter) and sore like saw.
Standard English is a controversial term used to denote a form of written and spoken English that is thought to be normative for educated users.
Trudgill concludes in this matter, that "...Standard English is a dialect that differs from the others in that it has greater prestige, does not have an associated accent and does not form part of a dialect continuum".
The two most common recognised varieties of English are British English (which very broadly includes the British-based dialects of English spoken in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa) and American English.
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