nonstandard

CEFRB2

/nɑnˈstændɚd/

adjective

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adjective
Not following an accepted standard.
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adjective
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Not conforming to the standard variety, or to the language as used by the majority of its speakers.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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This pronunciation is nonstandard.
Unlike the TV standard we are all accustomed to, the Web is the wild, wild West of video nonstandards.

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Unlike the TV standard we are all accustomed to, the Web is the wild, wild West of video nonstandards.
2008, Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Vista, page 438
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)
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 9, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 486

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From non- + standard.