The most famous example of linguistic chauvinism is the word barbarian. Bárbaros means non-Greek speaking, hence uncivilized. It isn't even a real word, in the sense of hav
…ing a root meaning, but a mocking dismissal of all foreign speech as a nonsensical bar-bar-bar sound. Another kind of linguistic chauvinism is the disdain toward the Scots, or Anglic dialect of English, among the English - who speak the Saxon dialect of English. In fact the chauvinism of the Saxon dialect, also known as Standard English, is such that being able to speak anything else is often a social defect. But in the case of Scots the error and the mistake are particularly spectacular, for the broad Scots that uses fu for full, and lugs for ears is no reduced form of anything. It is the direct inheritor of an unbroken tradition that goes further back in literary English history than Standard English does. The Saxon dialect of London, which became modern Standard English, did not even exist during the great period of Old English literature - much of which, like Beowulf, was written in the Anglic ancestor of modern Scots English. ( Full Answer )