green language
n.— «Instead, they should be taught English as a second language, Robinson said, knowing that they’ll need to speak properly in order to get a job and earn a living.…Robinson calls standard English the “Green Language” as a way to equate it with earning money.» —“Ed official stirs debate by backing street slang” by Jiquanda Johnson Flint Journal (Mich.) Mar. 2, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...