Svrha je rada prikazati jezični utjecaj četiriju najvećih gradova u Hrvatskoj – Zagreba, Splita, Rijeke i Osijeka na svoju širu okolinu. Rad pokazuje kako se govornici čiji organski idiomi znatnije odstupaju od standarda u nastojanju da govore standardom zapravo, poglavito na prozodijskoj i nešto manje na fonemskoj razini, ne prilagođavaju standardu nego govoru gradskoga središta svoje regije misleći pritom da govore »standardnije« iako se nerijetko tako zapravo čak još i više udaljuju od standarda.The aim of this article is to show the linguistic influence of the four biggest cities in Croatia – Zagreb, Split, Rijeka and Osijek on their surrounding region. The article shows that the speakers of the organic idioms considerably farther from the standard when trying to speak the standard do not really adjust their speech to the standard but, mainly on the prosodic and somewhat less on the phonemic level, tend to adapt their manner of speaking to the speech of the town center of their region and while thinking they are speaking »more standardly« they are really getting even farther from the standard
