Conclusions
It may seem impractical to completely do away
with such a useful concept as the variety, which
has for so long been the basic unit of analysis in
many fields of linguistics, including World
Englishes. It remains, however, that the concept
is often under-defined in works setting out to
describe such varieties – terms like ‘Singapore
English’, ‘Malaysian English’, ‘Welsh English’,
etc., are taken for granted because, after all, they
contain a geographical component everyone can