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Deficit Difference Controversy

• Definition: A controversy which took place in the 1960s and 1970s in which linguists argued with educators that vernacular varieties of English should be considered as different dialects of English rather than deficient versions of standard English.

  Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes