Nonstandard vs Nonconforming - What's the difference?
nonstandard | nonconforming | Related terms |
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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That does not conform, either to the rules of an established church, or to official regulations
Nonstandard is a related term of nonconforming.
As adjectives the difference between nonstandard and nonconforming
is that nonstandard is not standard while nonconforming is that does not conform, either to the rules of an established church, or to official regulations.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 .