nonstandard

See also: non-standard

English

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non- + standard

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nonstandard (comparative more nonstandard, superlative most nonstandard)

  1. Not standard.
  2. (linguistics) Not conforming to the standard variety.
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 9, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 486:
      The resulting sequence of covert wh-pronoun + Complementiser has an overt counterpart in nonstandard varieties of English, as the following example (recorded from a BBC radio programme) illustrates:
      (91)      England put themselves in a position [whereby that they took a lot of credit for tonightʼs game] (Ron Greenwood, BBC radio 4)

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Noun

nonstandard (plural nonstandards)

  1. Something that is not standard.
    • 2008, Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Vista (page 438)
      Unlike the TV standard we are all accustomed to, the Web is the wild, wild West of video nonstandards.
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