Nonstandard vs Extraordinary - What's the difference?
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Not standard.
(linguistics) Not conforming to the language as used by the majority of its speakers.
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Something that is not standard.
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Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;
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Nonstandard is a related term of extraordinary.
As adjectives the difference between nonstandard and extraordinary
is that nonstandard is not standard while extraordinary is not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;.As a noun nonstandard
is something that is not standard.nonstandard
English
Alternative forms
* non-standardAdjective
(en adjective)- The resulting sequence of covert wh-pronoun + Complementiser'' has an overt counterpart in nonstandard varieties of English, as the following example (recorded from a BBC radio programme) illustrates:
(91) England put themselves in a position [''whereby that they took a lot of credit for tonight?s game] (Ron Greenwood, BBC radio 4)
Derived terms
* nonstandard dialect * nonstandard item * nonstandard method * nonstandard unitNoun
(en noun)- Unlike the TV standard we are all accustomed to, the Web is the wild, wild West of video nonstandards .
extraordinary
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Adjective
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