substandardadj.

1850 Coll. Public Statutes 13th & 14th Vict. ciii. 949 Such Copies so to be procured shall be called the County Sub-Standard Weights and Measures, and shall, at least once in every Year..be compared with and corrected by the said County Standard Weights and Measures.

1899 Chicago Clinic 12 206/1 Is it not much more likely to be due to a substandard medicinal quality in the drug itself?

1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 13/1 The famous ‘Marshella’..sub-standard [stockings]... Special lot..slightly sub-standard.

1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After 312 The mother is frequently sub-standard mentally.

1975 M. Sullivan Watch how you Go i. 22 They lived all their long lives under sub-standard conditions, and accepted them.

2008 New Scientist 26 Jan. 53/2 Doctors grumbled that theriac was always in short supply and that foreign rogues often sold them substandard stuff.

1928 Eng. Jrnl. Jan. 70 The teacher of college English will give..elementary information on..the relationship of standard speech to sub-standard speech and dialect.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iii. 50 In such communities the non-standard language can be divided..into sub~standard speech, intelligible at least, though not uniform, throughout the country, and local dialect.

1951 G. L. Trager & H. L. Smith Outl. Eng. Struct. 84 I have knowed can be called substandard or ‘incorrect’.

1964 Eng. Stud. 45 (Suppl.). 149 St. Mary's Lane, Lewes, is called ‘Simmery Lane’ in local sub-standard speech.

1999 N.Y. Times Mag. 12 Sept. 42/2 The myth of standard English and its corollary..substandard English.

1929 Bull. Mus. Fine Arts 27 44/2 The film was made for the Museum by the University Film Foundation and is now available for purchase or rent in two sizes, the standard (35 mm.) and sub-standard (16 mm.) sizes.

1934 Discovery Feb. 47/2 [Films] shot on standard 35 mm film-stock before being reduced to the sub-standard non-flam 16 mm normally required for class-room use.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 818/1 Sub-standard sizes in use are 17·5, 16, 9·5 and 8 mm., as contrasted with the standard 35 mm.

1959 W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 100/1 Ciné film is designated according to its width, 35 mm. film..being said to be of ‘standard gauge’..the only other professional size of film..is 16 mm. wide and this is termed ‘sub-standard’, or ‘narrow-gauge’.

2007 E. Schaefer in J. Lewis & E. L. Smoodin Looking past Screen 203 Even though various substandard gauges had been around for years, Eastman Kodak's introduction of the 16mm Ciné-Kodak camera and projector in 1923 attracted the ‘leisure classes’ to the hobby of home movies.