non-standard speech

Questions about non-standard speech

What does non-standard speech mean?

non-standard speech means "speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community".

Is non-standard speech a common word?

non-standard speech is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.