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standard english

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Standard English ( SE ) refers to whatever form of the English language is accepted as a national norm in any English-speaking country. It encompasses grammar , vocabulary and spelling . In the British Isles , particularly in England and Wales , it is often ...

Usage examples of standard english.

Antonov's voice had gone still deeper, and every senior flag officer knew it was a bad sign when his Standard English started losing definite articles.

It's not strictly correct to say that today's slang is tomorrow's standard English, if we can judge from history.

So we've been able to ascertain their physiology but little else, other than their seemingly inexplicable use of Standard English and of ship names from human history and languages.

The slow Beaufort accent had drawn attention even in the Fleet, where such idosyncrasies were far from rare, and Lad had learned the hard way to speak excellent Standard English.

Dawn was breaking over An Teallach, the huge extinct volcano, that most people knew by its Standard English name, the Forge.

He had promised to have his people collect samples of everything that we felt would be commercially interesting, along with instructions, in standard English, on how to use each one.