Standard American is a bidding system for the game of bridge widely used in North America and elsewhere. Owing to the popularization of the game by Charles Goren in the 1940s and 1950s, its early ...
Yale’s Grammatical Diversity Project is examining regional deviations from standard American English, and attempting to trace their roots. Here’s an example from the Yale Alumni Magazine story ...
Note that most descriptivists are not against Mainstream Standard (American) English. (When they publish their research findings, they write in Standard English.) Rather, they believe that there ...
They just spoke differently, pronouncing words contrary to standard American English and used different phrases. Being placed ...