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non-standard

Adjective

Meaning

non-standard (comparative more non-standard, superlative most non-standard)

Alternative spelling of nonstandard

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing. John McWhorter

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge. Gary Hamel

A colloquial (non-standard) and rarely used way to form the passive voice for dative verbs is the following: Ich kriege geholfen, or: Ich bekomme geholfen, literally: "I get helped". Source: Internet

According to RFC 2076, this is a common but non-standard header field. Source: Internet

A true universal set is not included in standard set theory (see Paradoxes below), but is included in some non-standard set theories. Source: Internet

But it is non-standard to use an apostrophe instead of the caron. Source: Internet

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