Editing Standard language (section)

===English in the United Kingdom===
{{Further|Standard English}}
In the United Kingdom, the standard language is [[British English]], which is based upon the language of the medieval [[court of Chancery]] of England and Wales.{{sfnp|Smith|1996}} In the late-seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, [[Standard English]] became established as the linguistic norm of the [[Social class in the United Kingdom|upper class]], composed of the [[Peerage of the United Kingdom|peerage]] and the [[gentry]].{{sfnp|Blake|1996}} Socially, the accent of the spoken version of the standard language then indicated that the speaker was a man or a woman possessed of a good education, and thus of high [[reputation|social prestige]].{{sfnp|Baugh|Cable|2002}} In England and Wales, Standard English is usually associated with [[Received Pronunciation]], "the standard accent of English as spoken in the [[Southern England|south of England]].", but it may also be spoken with other accents, and in other countries still other accents are used ([[Australian English|Australian]], [[Canadian English|Canadian]], [[American English|American]], [[Scottish English|Scottish]], etc.){{sfnp|Pearsall|1999|p=xiv}}