If you come across people saying or writing things like these, you may well wonder who they are, what they are saying, and what language they are speaking:

1.(from newspaper)
Health and environment him all big-fellow something all woman along
country today he got big-fellow worry along him.

2. ...which-one principal came here, she's just cheeky like the other one

3. (from newspaper apropos Sonja Gandhi)
What's more we should respect her for being a layak Indian bahu who stayed on to do her duty by her husband's family, she reared her children and instilled in them the best Indian values, she took care of her mother-in-law and husband's legacy.

4. A: How come you borrow my shirt now got hole one?!
B: Borrow that time already like that, wut!
A: Then why you never say first?
B: You never ask, wut!

5. (ten year old child to another child who said something in Igbo)
Tokam for inglish na, a no de hyar di ting we yu de tok.

There's a range of difference here, but all have a major component of what we call English. We would not call all of them New Englishes. (1) and (5) are from pidgins (at least originally)but the others do illustrate the term. New/World/Global/Post Colonial Englishes have been developing and increasing in use in former colonies very rapidly and they have attracted a great deal of scholarly attention recently.

In this course, we will study a handful of these New Englishes, exploring Mesthrie and Bhatt's claim that New English departures from the standard in accent, grammar, vocabulary, discourse markers, and speech acts cluster rather closely together. We will also be grappling with issues of history and politicswith issues of the Standard, cultural identity and exclusion, and the heritage of colonialism, and with Edgar Schneider's model of stages of emergence of a New English, which makes American English the oldest and most mature New English.