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General Category => Words => Topic started by: jancsika on May 13, 2021, 02:25:36 AM

Title: nonstandard
Post by: jancsika on May 13, 2021, 02:25:36 AM

Is that a non-standard spelling ?  :D

Title: Re: nonstandard
Post by: TRex on May 13, 2021, 03:53:54 AM

I wouldn't even consider not using a hyphen to spell non-standard.

Title: Re: nonstandard
Post by: Alan W on August 19, 2021, 04:13:47 PM

In the online Oxford dictionaries at lexico.com (https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/nonstandard), the US dictionary has nonstandard, while the UK dictionary has non-standard. And indeed, nonstandard is used more frequently in US publications than elsewhere. Nevertheless, even US sources use the hyphenated form more often than the single-word form. For instance, in the Corpus of Global Web-based English, nonstandard is used 123 times in US sources, but non-standard is used 322 times. In British sources the hyphenated form is favoured 355 to 69.

Nonstandard will lose its common word status and no longer be used as a seed word for 7-by-many puzzles.