Fer chrissake, David Crystal is one of the leading academics in the world in the field of linguistics.
He was not, however, 'my' professor as I did not study at Bangor.
I quoted his definition in the interests of clarity.
His is the accepted academic treatise on the subject.
I don't give a stuff whether anybody prefers what's been uploaded to some tinpot website for their own quaintly jingoistic reasons.
This is science, not football fandom.
Now sail off in your flaming gunboat and get every accent, idiolect and speech impediment registered as a dialect or even a language.
Just what ease of international communication needs.
And the recording is still MOR mainstream shit.