STANDARD ENGLISH THE PRESENT

Reni Racmawati

2250408018

105-106 class
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ART
STATE UNIVERSITY OF SEMARANG

The appearing of new dialects in England that were formerly to be

heard only in the dominions and colonies of the former British
Empire Families who emigrated from the West Indies to Britain in
the 1950s and 1960s found that although they spoke English, but
it was different from English they heard in Britain. Thats the
reason why the two sides made a new language called Pidgin to
communicate to each other. The Pidgin English which was agreed
by both sides was used by people who live there to communicate.
As the time goes by, there were new communities which were
new generation of the former Pidgin English users that used
Pidgin English as their Mother Tongue (first language), which then
called Creole English.

In the end of the 14th century, there was no Standard English in

England, it was proven by may literary works that had been
mention above. The contrast with situation today is not as great
as it may seem if we think that Standard English today as one
dialect among many. But even if Standard English is defined as
one dialect among many, it is not longer a regional dialect. It has
spread throughout the country as the educated variety of English,
and taught to foreign learners of English, so it makes sense that
people see the other dialect as imperfect versions of English. The
most noticeable differences between present day dialect and
Standard English in England lie in quite a small set of grammatical
features. So here, we are going to give some of the dialectal form
of English compared with Standard English that we know.

object

possessive

Object+ -self

Possessive
-self

Me

My

Meself

Myself

Him

His

Himself

Hisself

Her

Her

Herself

Herself

It

Its

Itself

Itself

Us

Our

Ussuelves

Ourselves

You

Your

Youself

yourself

Them

Their

Themselves

theirselves

The words in Red Color are the Standard form of Reflexive

Pronouns, although they called as Standard English, they dont
have fixed pattern.

These examples of non-standard dialect illustrated some of

the principal differences between Standard English and the dialect
today, most of them are from England. It is not a complete list,
but it illustrates some of the most common differences.