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
His smirking and somewhat subversive accommodation to this Pharisaism is to emphasize the ways in which Black English is more complex 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
Being a Series of newly edited and beautifully printed Demy Octavo Library Editions of Standard English Authors, from the most correct Text.
From Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
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