Standard English

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This is an artful and convincing reading, and McWhorter carries it out in an impishly forensic manner, proving his thesis that, in some respects, Black English has “more going on” than Standard English.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

Remember, for many Americans, Standard English is only used in formal settings—business and school, but not home.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2014

Grammarians push Standard English at the expense of other forms, he asserts.

From BBC • May 13, 2013

Standard English was all very well for Anglophone societies, but out there in the wider world, a non-native "decaffeinated English", declared Nerriere, was becoming the new global phenomenon.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2010

Single plays, such as Julius Caesar, Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, As You Like It, are edited for class use in Standard English Classics, Lake Classics, and various other school series.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph