"It is therefore important to speak and write standard English."

What is so "white" about being a good student or speaking standard English?

Some words, like the names of local animals, are used in standard English.

They are beginning to be aware of standard English and when it is used.

The fourth 'do' is exactly the same as it would be in standard English.

But there are still cases where anyone who wants to succeed is better off using standard English.

I believe the news media should continue to use the standard English names for all countries and cities.

I am saying to them there are certain situations where they need to be able to use standard English.

This is different from most word roots in modern standard English.

But she did not want them to enter the world of work without knowing about standard English.

Then, at around 1550, the story becomes exclusively about standard English.

The translation has held its place as the standard English version into the 21st century.

Using standard English in applications and job interviews is important.

Most students, he said, already use both standard English and the vernacular.

Others blame schools for not teaching standard English better because teachers have low expectations of black students.

Among their achievements was to agree upon the size of a standard English foot.

In theory, teachers would use street talk as a "bridge" to help children master standard English.

For the most part, children are using standard English.

Standard English is a cultural practice, not a biological inheritance.

As here, city accents are closer to what might be considered standard English.

They're looking for tools to teach children standard English so they might be competitive.

Standard English, on the other hand, is the language of education, high culture, government, the media and official/formal communications.

If you have a regional accent, do not attempt to change it to standard English.

"What we want to make sure of is that they are confident in using standard English.

Writing should be well organised and in paragraphs, using standard English.

Oxford English provides all the materials needed to set children on the right track.

It will be fun to hunt with these," she said to him in her precise, almost Oxford English. "

His Oxford English bore the least, musical hint of another accent.

According to the 'Oxford English Dictionary' the first use of this sense was in 1530.

Like the diligent Oxford English graduate she is, she's analysed the business of style.

"English is being adapted as a working language, but it's not Oxford English," he said.

"Release them," Simon heard a voice say in distinctly Oxford English.

This man spoke in a pleasant Oxford English although his features showed him to be of oriental descent.

Protests about professionalization also came in the 1960s from the prominenti of Oxford English.

Grant says his first port of call was traditional hard-copy dictionaries like the Oxford English.

"Excuse me, old man - signore, that is," the voice corrected itself in what sounded like Oxford English.

Good morning, Lieutenant Bastable," he said in perfect Oxford English. "

Ivan enquires in a blasé remake of Oxford English from the thirties.

• Authors should use Oxford English or Petit Robert spelling.

However, the earliest known 'recorded' use of the term found by the 'Oxford English Dictionary' occurred as late as 1988.

The Oxford English Dictionarystates, grumpily, “often mispronounced as cameellia”.

The Oxford English.

However, I've checked the Oxford English and it means "to assign an initial value to" - so there you are - none the wiser!

Similarly, The Oxford English Dictionary19 provides the following definition of "seagoing":

It isn't in any American dictionary, but I found it in the Oxford English.

Cited in the 'Oxford English Dictionary'.

Both the Oxford English and the Collins define meres and tarns as lakes.

Homer's ubiquitous catch phrase was famously added to the 'Oxford English Dictionary' in 2001, without the apostrophe.

He had the dark leathery looks of the Middle East, bul his voice was pure Oxford English. '

The word "transport" was adopted over the originally proposed "trade" which - in Oxford English - is synonym to Commerce).