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This is not just a historical point. The attitudes which are the product of the above situation still exist. They are perpetuated by much school teaching and they are widely held by both the more and the less educated. School-teachers devote much energy to eradicating the influence of speech on writing, commonly asserting that the forms produced by pupils are grammatically incorrect. At times Diamond Foxxx children have been required to produce prose modelled on the style of some literary master. Literary masterpieces, it is claimed, embody all that is best in the language and the best most of us can do is to come as close as possible to them in our own style, as a means of improving our home or to come to think of language as something which he learns about in school and which can be dismissed from all considerations of serious practical use. That this is the case is suggested by the popular use of the word language to mean written language. For many people what they speak is not language.