PINUPS (Postwar International Northern Utah Prestige Standard)

Having give further thought to the problem of choosing a standard prestige accent for the entire United States, and to the obvious solution, the adoption of the variety of speech spoken in Northern Utah, it has occurred to me that that excellent variety of English would also be a suitable standard for the rest of the English-speaking world.

For that reason, I've added the word "international" to the name to be used for this prestige standard, making the full name "Postwar International Northern Utah Prestige Standard" (PINUPS).
During my fairly long lifetime, I've mingled with English speakers from all over the United States and to some extent from other English-speaking countries. I've noticed with some surprise that every English speaker I've ever conversed with, with the exception of people from Northern Utah, has had to a greater or lesser extent some annoying defect in his or her accent. From these encounters, I've been led to the conclusion that the only defect-free variety of English in the English-speaking world may be the one spoken in Northern Utah. On that basis, the choice of Northern Utah speech for an international standard seems beyond challenge.

Let me assure the reader that the fact that I was born in Northern Utah and spent a significant number of my early years there, off and on, has no bearing on my preference for the English spoken there.

Bob Cunningham, Southern California, U S of A
Let's hear it for PINUPS, Postwar International Northern Utah Prestige Standard!