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Dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos ) is used in two distinct ways, even by scholars of language. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is characteristic of a par...
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Call for papers: American Dialect Society Northeast Regional Meeting, Apr. 14-17, 2010 ... The American Dialect Society is now accepting nominations for the "word of the year" of 2009, as well as for the "word of the decade" for 2000-2009; What is the word or phrase which best characterizes the year or the decade?
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Browse the web or read text in any of several comic English dialects. Pick from Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, and Pig Latin. ... The Dialectizer takes text or other web pages and instantly creates parodies of them! Try it out by selecting a dialect, then entering a URL or English text below.
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Dialect - Definition of Dialect at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Dialect. Look it up now! ... The language peculiar to the members of a group, especially in an occupation; jargon: the dialect of science.
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IDEA was created in 1997 as a free, online archive of primary source dialect and accent recordings for the performing arts. Its founder and director is Paul Meier, author of the best-selling Accents and Dialects for Stage and Screen, and a leading dialect coach for theatre and film.
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Welcome to the American Dialect homepage, an effort to bridge the gap between the scholarly and literary worlds of dialectology. ... The American Dialect Homepage Regional Varieties of English in the United States of America and Canada...
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A dialect is any variety of a language spoken by a group of people that is characterized by systematic differences from other varieties of the same language.
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Dialect regions of the United States ... Map 1 shows four major dialect regions: the Inland North, the South, the West, and the Midland. The first three show a relatively uniform development of the three major sound shifts of American English, each moving in different directions.
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