Questions tagged [non-standard]
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Use of double colon (::) as a sentence separator [closed]
I know that the double colon (::) has been used in computing languages (e.g., in Haskell, Julia, and R), though its uses are not limited to computing. However, in recent years, I have seen this more ...
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What does 'shyme' mean?
Reading Dracula, I found this sentence:
It’s a shyme that people are allowed to top their walls with broken bottles
In no dictionary was I able to find a definition; ChatGPT says that it is a ...
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Object / accusative personal pronouns replacing actor in certain clauses [duplicate]
I'm a native English speaker, and I noticed that I sometimes use accusative pronouns (him, her, me) to replace actors in certain clauses. I have a feeling this is prescriptively considered incorrect ...
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"Unrelentless" to mean "relentless"?
A native speaker commended someone for investigating something thoroughly, so they said "for your relentless investigating efforts", then they corrected themselves and said "...
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When and where did 'irregardless' first emerge in print, how did it spread, and to what extent was it viewed as a dialectal word?
Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003) has the following entry for irregardless:
irregardless adv {prob[ably a] blend of irrespective and regardless} ca. 1912) nonstand[ard] : ...
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Non-standard grammar feature in British dialect?
I moved from Worcestershire in the UK to a non-native English speaking country when I was a child, which has made me very aware of my accent. Unlike my parents, I used to have a regional accent. I ...
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What is the non-standard grammatical feature in this sentence? [duplicate]
In the following utterance:
“You know all you’re getting off it then is maybe the CD-ROM which
surely that’s not worth grabbing”.
I’m trying to say that they use non standard grammar by using the ...
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What accent did 'kewl' (cool) originate from
I've been hearing 'kewl' for a long time excessively on social media (mostly used by Americans).
I wondered what accent it came from. I searched, but only found the following information about it:
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Is "you Chromebook" correct grammar in any dialect?
As a learner of English as a foreign language, I believe from what I learned that "you Chromebook" is not grammatically correct in "standard" English (as spoken in formal situations in the UK, US etc)....
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Using before the fact in multiple contexts
The terms "before the fact" and "after the fact" are usually used in a legal sense, as in, accessory before the fact, (and similarly, accessory after the fact), to indicate a person aiding or abetting ...
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When is a English dialect considered to be non-grammatical/have non-grammatical phrasing? [duplicate]
So the question is when a dialect of English is considered non-grammatical. I am aware that it can be considered non-standard, however some phrases can be to an extent not to be considered non-...
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Is “have went” gaining common currency in AmE and BrE?
In the following article from English today there is a survey about the usage of the erroneous, but apparently rather commonly used expression “have went” in place of “have gone”:
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Who changed the way vacumn was spelled 40 years ago?
I noticed Robin Michael, who is on this site, stated she learned to spell the word 'vacuum' as "vacumn". I was also taught the same thing in school around 40 years ago; I always scored the ...
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Missing definition of “night and day”
I am trying to see if the colloquial usage of night and day is non-standard and is improper register, or if it is simply an ommitted definition in the dictionaries:
night and day: Describing a ...
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"It is" used as "there is": what is the origin?
Ok, this is a somewhat nonstandard English question. In the Southern US, or at least in Central Virginia, there is an idiomatic use of the phrase it is that is equivalent to the expression there is, ...
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