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*in plain language and *in plain English
Fig. in simple, clear, and straightforward language. (*Typically: be ~; put something [into] ~; say something ~; write something ~.) That's too confusing. Please say it again in plain English. Tell me again in plain language.
See also: language, plain

(The) Queen's English

"Official" British English. He can't even speak The Queen's English! Despicable!
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of Southampton, UK) updated resource text provides English language and linguistics students an overview of World Englishes.
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Schneider, generalising from his large scale study of new Englishes (like Indian English, Singaporean English etc) has proposed that the process of dialect birth through substrate influences has five distinctive stages: foundation, exonormative stabilisation, nativisation, endonormative stabilisation and differentiation (2003 : 255).
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