Was-leveling: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
==See also== |
==See also== |
||
*[[Is-leveling]] |
|||
*[[Were-leveling]] |
*[[Were-leveling]] |
||
Revision as of 18:45, 16 November 2007
Was-leveling is the use of the word "was" in places where standard English has "were", occurring in some nonstandard dialects of English, such as African American Vernacular English. This feature is widely stigmatized as being a solecism.
See also
 | This linguistics article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |