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Since you excluded non-American variants of English (for very sensible reasons, well outlined in your original thread), would it not have been advisable to define the word "English" at the beginning of the thesis?



Yes, good point sjmaxq. I did say it in the abstract, but not on the introduction itself... As a matter of fact, this point is not explained until the material is presented Too much re-writing, I guess, something important is always missing from the final version.