In their seminal book The Empire Writes Back (1989, 1st edn), Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin write of the determined efforts by many colonised-by-Britain writers to write back against the standardised English the coloniser has imposed on them as a means to control and subjugate them and their own respective indigenous cultures. These editors nominate such anti-colonialist, postcolonial efforts as writing in english – a deliberate lower-case oppositional ploy to the capitalised English –

One way, then, to counter the English language Hydra of ‘standardised’ English is to write back to the centre of the empire; to write against it via non-standard english.