All of the following are true about the "high form" of a language EXCEPT it is _______

a. usually associated with religion
b. associated with the upwardly mobile
c. spoken by every member of a society
d. associated with the elite
e. usually the form in which much of the literature of a language is written


ANSWER:
c

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