MLE

See also: mle

English

Proper noun

MLE

  1. (linguistics) Initialism of Multicultural London English.
    Coordinate terms: EE, SSBE
    • ante 2009: Ignacio Ramos, A. Jesús Moya Guijarro, and José Ignacio Albentosa Hernández [eds.], New Trends in English Teacher Education, page 209 (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; →ISBN
      In terms of its characteristics, MLE is anchored to a large extent in Jamaican Creole, throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s a competitor to Cockney. But Kerswill et al report that it has now encompassed and synthesized elements of everything from Cockney and African English to Hindi, Bangladeshi languages and Arabic. For this reasons[sic] it is sometimes called, erroneously, “Hinglish” or “Jafaican”.
    • 2023 October 31, “Language barrier: why even Harry has stopped speaking the king’s English”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 March 2024:
      A new study from the University of Essex, which analysed the speech patterns of 200 participants. About 26% spoke EE, half spoke SSBE and the rest spoke MLE. […] Adele and Jay Blades speak EE; SSBE is Ellie Goulding and Prince Harry; MLE means talking like Stormzy or the Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka.
  2. (sports) Initialism of Major League Eating.

Noun

MLE (countable and uncountable, plural MLEs)

  1. (planetology, areology) Initialism of multi-layer ejecta.
  2. (statistics) Initialism of maximum likelihood estimation.

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