Standard English
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In a study by professor Neil Kirk, most Scottish participants assumed AI-generated Scottish Standard English or Dundonian Scots voices were human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
But in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the all-conquering Standard English spread like a mighty spring-tide over England and found no check to its progress till the Cheviots were reached.
From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman
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