Standard Spanish or neutral Spanish is a linguistic variety, or lect, that is considered a correct educated standard for the Spanish language. Standard Spanish is not merely Spanish adjusted to fit in prescriptive molds dictated by a linguistic overseeing authority, but also a form of language that conforms to the literary canon and cultural tradition. Most aspects of this standard variety, from grammar and prosody to phonetics and lexicon, are therefore different, to some degree, from everyday common usage.
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