Alexander Baratta and Paul Vincent Smith do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no ...

Standard English is the form of English that is taught around the world and understood by all speakers of the language. Non-standard English is the informal version of the language, which can change ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). When I recently explained ...

As far back as George Bernard Shaw’s fictional professor Henry Higgins, language experts have argued that low-income students who learn to switch from speaking a dialect to using standard English have ...

Yale’s Grammatical Diversity Project is examining regional deviations from standard American English, and attempting to trace their roots. Here’s an example from the Yale Alumni Magazine story about ...

QUOTING non-standard language in the newspapers is tough. Most American English speakers say "I'm gonna" most of the time in running speech, but it is standard practice to quote it as "I'm going to".