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Vinony

nonstandard

adjective

  1. not standard; not conforming to the usual or accepted rules or measurements
  2. not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers of a language
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /nɑnˈstændɚd/

adj

Etymology: From non- + standard.

  1. Not standard.
  2. Not conforming to the standard variety, or to the language as used by the majority of its speakers.

    “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)”

noun

Etymology: From non- + standard.

  1. Something that is not standard.

    “Unlike the TV standard we are all accustomed to, the Web is the wild, wild West of video nonstandards.”