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List of dialects of the English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of dialects of the English language. Dialects are linguistic varieties which differ in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar from each other and from Standard English (which is itself...
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IPA chart for English dialects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This concise chart shows the most common applications of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent English language pronunciations. See Pronunciation respelling for English for phonetic t...
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In North America, the distinction between /ɔ/ and /ɑ/ is in the process of disappearing in General American and (standard) Canadian English, while this distinction is maintained (conservatively) in all of the major non-standard dialects.
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day, by Walter W. Skeat This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Plus, the various dialects, from Cockney to Jamaican, and innumerable sources of slang, from Polari to hip hop, continue to add novel terms and expressions to the mix. It is no surprise to hear from people learning English what a student once told me: English just has too many words!
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These include pidgins, creoles, regional dialects, minority dialects and indigenized varieties. ... For example, in American English, you can say, "She's gotten better." But in British English you'd say, "She's got better."; People don't think one way is right and one way is wrong - just that they're different.
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; A National Map of the Regional; Dialects of American English ... The three major dialect regions of the United States identified in Map 1 -- the Inland North, the South, and the West -- correspond to the three vowel patterns first presented in "The Three Dialects of English" (Labov 1991). They are the major expanding...
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