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What is the meaning of nonstandard English?

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Standard English is the literary dialect that is taught in school. It comes from the Saxon part of Anglo-Saxon, or Old English. Nonstandard English is any of the many and various regional dialects, and also many popular but "incorrect" words and forms, for example the use of "dove" in place of "dived as the past tense of "dive."

"Nonstandard" is also used disparagingly and erroneously to describe the Scots dialect, which is the modern form of Anglic (the Anglo- part of Anglo-Saxon), and thus has a better historical claim to the name "Standard English" than English does!

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