Generic variant subtags in RFC 3066bis

[John Cowan]

Michael Everson scripsit:

> Zzzzzt. Thank you for playing.
> 
> See http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialMap.html

Indeed.  The first sentence therein is "Traditionally, dialectologists
have listed three dialect groups in the United States: Northern, Midland,
and Southern."  I didn't pull this out of my bunghole, you know.

> >That's an objection of a different sort, and I'll take it up separately.
> >I don't really see why Midland en-us is any different from Scouse en-gb.
> 
> Register Midland en-US then.

Michael, either dialects are registerable or they aren't.  Which is it?  (Don't
answer for at least two weeks.)

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