"formal register" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are writing in an academic, business, or official context, and you want to emphasize the use of polite, professional language. For example, "When composing emails to colleagues, please remember to use a formal register."
Maude suggested that a formal register of lobbyists would make it harder for such investigations to succeed.
Although the society does classify them informally as eligible for landmark status, it has no formal register of historic places.
Slang is a type of language that marks an informal register; literary words (like "thou" and "shalt") mark a formal register.
There is a formal register, which he manages beautifully when he wants to: "the claustrophobic gauge of the canyonlike streets with their hanging garden of ancient fire escapes".
That's in contrast to the changes we might adopt when shifting to a more formal register – deliberately trying to sound posher during a job interview, or on the phone to a stranger.
Another common language stereotype is that children from poor families primarily speak with an "informal" register or style, as I might speak with my sister or a close friend, while their middle class and wealthier peers speak with a "formal" register, as I might speak during a job interview.
The volunteers become more formalized, creating formal registered non-governmental organizations (NGOS), of which there are currently over 200 operating in the eastern areas.
Although the entries will almost certainly cause a citywide -- if not worldwide -- discussion, there will be no formal registering of public opinion.
They give the example of Comic Relief, one of the UK's most successful charitable brands, whose formal registered charity name is Charity Projects.
And at Take 2 of the same study, the interval from Take 1 to Take 2 spanning a nine-month period, the same Spanish HL group 'move[d] … to more formal registers that use[d] main clauses with embedded clauses' (Colombi 2002: 84).
Irregardless and its ilk may not be appropriate for use in formal registers, and you certainly don't have to like them, but as Stan Carey says, "'Not a word' is not an argument". 6. Failing to discuss exceptions to rules.
