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  1. English American

    pp move indef Infobox Ethnic group group English American image File English Americans.png 295px caption ... . related Americans American ethnicity English people English Canadian s British American s English ... . According to American Community Survey in 2009 data, Americans reporting English ancestry ... English stock have a tendency to identify simply as American ethnicity Americans ref http books.google.co.uk ... Emigration ref Sense of identity Americans of English heritage are often seen as simply American ... English origin. For these reasons, no other part of the pluralist American society is so difficult ... Ancestry style background efefef Percentage English People English 48.7 African American African 20.0 ... Ancestry only style background efefef Percentage British American British total 74.3 English people English 60.9 Scot Irish American Scot Irish Scottish American Scot 14.3 German American German 8.7 Dutch ... Irish 30,594,130 10.9 Irish American Irish 200,000 5.0 English 24,515,138 8.7 Scottish American Scottish ... By American definition there are around 540,000 English people of any race in the United States, 40,000 ... Ducks see Australian American s . During the last years of 1860s, annual English immigration increased ... who came to America in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Throughout American history, English ... States. The English have contributed greatly to American life. Today, English is the most commonly spoken ... with 3.6 in 1890. American English is different from British English in terms of spelling a classic ... States American culture also shows influences from English culture . American flag Flag of the United ... Banner American national anthem takes its melody from the 18th century English song To Anacreon in Heaven ... building in Washington, D.C. which was first designed by English educated American Architect William .... Law The Law of the United States American legal system also has its roots in English law . ref http ... law.jrank.org pages 11657 Magna Charta.html Magna Carta ref English law prior to the American revolution ...   more details



  1. American/English

    Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name American English Type Album Artist Acoustic Alchemy Cover AAAmericanEnglish.jpg Released March 29, 2005 small USA small br April 11, 2005 small UK small Recorded 2005 at br Higher Ground Studios, London , UK br Hansa Haus Studios, Bonn , Germany Genre Smooth Jazz Length 48 45 Label Higher Octave Music br 72435 79755 2 0 Producer Richard Bull dn br Greg Carmichael br Miles Gilderdale Last album 14th br Radio Contact br 2003 This album 15th br American English br 2005 Next album 16th br This Way Acoustic Alchemy album This Way br 2007 Album ratings rev1 Allmusic rev1score Rating 4 5 ref Allmusic class album id r732241 ref American English is Acoustic Alchemy s fourth album release on the Higher Octave Music label, and contains eleven tracks, making it also their shortest album with the label to date. The album was preceded by single Say Yeah for smooth jazz radio in the USA, an offering in a hip hop style, remarked by some to be similar in style to British urban singer songwriter Craig David . Experimental attributes include digital processing on Carmichael s guitar, which cut off the ends of each note, and scat style vocals from Gilderdale toward the end of the track. Other highlights include The Detroit Shuffle , reminiscent of 1989 s Catalina Kiss from the Blue Chip Acoustic Alchemy album Blue Chip album. The track fused a vibrant melody with the shuffle rhythm which helped seal the band s popularity in the genre towards the end of the 1980s. This is the first of Acoustic Alchemy s albums to include EMI s Copy Control technique, designed to prevent illegal reproduction and audio ripping of the disc. Such controls only exist on the commercial release of the album the promo only copies do not contain any copy protection ... Hill Carmichael Gilderdale 3 27 7 She Speaks American English Carmichael Gilderdale 4 44 8 Lilac ... 2000s jazz album stub ko American English ...   more details



  1. American English (disambiguation)

    Wiktionary American English American English is the dialect of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. American English may also refer to American English song , by Idlewild American English album American English album 1987 , by Wax American English , a 2005 album by Acoustic Alchemy See also Anglo American disambig ...   more details



  1. Northern American English (disambiguation)

    Northern American English may refer to Northern American English , a variety of American English used in the northern United States, comprising North Central American English Inland Northern American English General American Western American English See also North American English Northern America disambig ...   more details



  1. Northern American English

    about the variety of the English language spoken in the northern United States Northern American English Northern AmE , also rendered as northern American English is the variety of the English language used in the northern United States . Among the oldest and most pervasive of American English patterns, it is particularly used in New England , New York , New Jersey , and northeastern Pennsylvania , and the dialects extend beyond the Mississippi River Mississippi across northern Iowa , Minnesota , and the Dakotas . ref name CanEn Canadian English. Brinton, Laurel J., and Fee, Marjery, ed. 2005 . Ch. 12. in The Cambridge history of the English language. Volume VI English in North America. , Algeo, John, ed., pp. 422 440. Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0 521 26479 0, 978 0 521 26479 2. On p. 422 It is now generally agreed that Canadian English originated as a variant of northern American English the speech of New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania . ref Canadian English is believed by some scholars to have originated from northern American English, ref name CanEn or to simply be a variety of it. ref Canadian English. McArthur, T., ed. 2005 . Concise Oxford companion to the English language , pp. 96 102. Oxford, UK Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 19 280637 8. On p. 97 Because CanE and AmE are so alike, some scholars have argued that in linguistic terms Canadian English is no more or less than a variety of Northern American English . ref References reflist 2 See also North American English North Central American English Inland Northern American English General American Western American English Category American English Lang stub ...   more details



  1. American Indian Pidgin English

    American Indian Pidgin English AIPE is an English language English based pidgin spoken by Native Americans. It is mentioned in World Englishes as one of many factors influencing American English . References Kirkpatrick, Andy. The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes . Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon Routledge, 2010. ISBN 978 0203849323 page 56 Category English based pidgins and creoles Category Indigenous peoples of the Americas ...   more details



  1. American English (song)

    Infobox single Name American English Cover AmericanEnglish Idlewild.jpg Artist Idlewild band Idlewild from Album The Remote Part Released June 2002 Format vinyl record 7 , compact disc CD Recorded ? Genre Alternative rock Alternative Length 4 36 Label Parlophone Producer Dave Eringa Last single You Held the World in Your Arms br 2002 This single American English br 2002 Next single Live in a Hiding Place br 2002 American English is a song by Scotland Scottish rock band Idlewild band Idlewild , from their 2002 album The Remote Part . It was released as the second single music single from the album in June 2002 and charted at 15 in the UK Singles Chart see 2002 in British music . It features piano performed by sometime band member Jeremy Mills . Track listings In the UK CD 1 small CDRS6582 small American English Poor Thing These Are Just Years American English video CD 2 American English The Nothing I Know We Always Have To Impress 7 American English Poor Thing Idlewild Category 2002 singles Category Idlewild songs Category Songs produced by Dave Eringa 2000s song stub ...   more details



  1. Dictionary of American English

    Unreferenced date July 2007 A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles DAE is a dictionary of terms appearing in English in the United States that was published in four volumes from 1938 to 1944 by the University of Chicago Press . ref Cite web url http lccn.loc.gov 39008203 title Library of Congress LCCN Permalink for 39008203 work lccn.loc.gov accessdate February 14, 2010 ref ref cite journal title A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles author John Davidson journal The Sewanee Review volume 48 issue 4 date Oct Dec, 1940 pages 544 546 publisher The Johns Hopkins University Press jstor 27535715 ref ref cite journal title Short Notices journal The Review of English Studies year 1962 volume XIII issue 50 pages 221 222 doi 10.1093 res XIII.50.221 publisher Oxford University Press ref Intended to pick up where the Oxford English Dictionary left off, it covers American English words and phrases in use from the first English settlements up to the start of the 20th century. History The work was begun in 1925 by William A. Craigie . The first volume appeared in 1936 under the editorship of Craigie and James R. Hulbert, ref University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, Guide to the James R. Hulbert Papers,1912 1936 http ead.lib.uchicago.edu view.xqy?id ICU.SPCL.HULBERTJ&c h ref a professor of English at the University of Chicago. The four volume edition was completed with the help of George Watson and Allen Walker Read . The work was one of the sources for the Dictionary of Americanisms , c. 1952, prepared under the direction of Mitford Mathews. A similar, but unrelated modern work, the Dictionary of American Regional English .... III. Honk Record. IV. Recorder Zu zu, Bibliography p. 2529 2552 Notes references Dictionaries of English DEFAULTSORT Dictionary Of American English Category English dictionaries American English Category American literature Category 1938 books Category University of Chicago Press books ref book stub ...   more details



  1. North American English

    Refimprove date December 2008 North American English NAmE , NAE is the variety of the English language ... edition 2nd page xi chapter Canadian English 250 Years in the Making ref and the similarities between the pronunciation, vocabulary and accent of American English and Canadian English , the two spoken ... Ash, Sharon Boberg, Charles title Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change ..., Peter & Jean Hannah. 2002 . International English A Guide to the Varieties of Standard English, 4th. London Arnold. ISBN 0 340 80834 9 . ref Due to historical and cultural factors, Canadian English and American English retain numerous distinctions from each other, with the differences being most noticeable ... 0920009328, p. 308. ref Spellings in American English have been highly influenced by lexicographers like Noah Webster , who sought to create a standardized form of English that was independent of British English. ref Noah Webster s Spelling Reform, 2011 Merriam Webster Online , http www.merriam webster.com info spelling reform.htm . ref Despite these differences, English as it is spoken in both Canada and the United States is similar, with the United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution having had a large influence on the early spoken form of Canadian English. ref M.H. Scargill. 1957 . Sources of Canadian English , The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 56.4, pp. 610 614. ref Some terms in North American English are used almost exclusively in Canada and the United States ... to the accents of Scotland and Ireland . See also North American English regional phonology Northern American English American and British English differences American English Americanism s Canadian English List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom List of words having different meanings in British and American English Regional accents of English Commonwealth English ... by continent Category North American English Category English language no Nordamerikansk engelsk ...   more details



  1. Western American English

    Carver 206 Phonology and phonetics Image West IPA.PNG 360px right thumb Western American English International ... distinct from either Canadian English Canadian or Midland American English less Canadian ... in the Inland Northern American English Great Lakes . Unlike the Highland South, IPA ou is conservative ... California English Utah English Wyoming English Idaho English Boontling Hawaiian English Pacific Northwest English References reflist Labov, William, Sharon Ash, and Charles Boberg 2006 . The Atlas of North American English. Berlin Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3 11 016746 8 External links http www.stanford.edu ... 1693373 Dr. Eckert s Interview About Northern California Speech English dialects by continent Category Western United States Category American English ...   more details



  1. American English (album)

    Infobox Album Name American English Type studio Artist Wax pop band Wax Cover Wax American English album cover.jpg Released Start date 1987 Recorded Start date 1987 3 2 Start date 1987 5 20 , Westside Studios, London Genre Length 41 35 Label RCA Records RCA Producer Christopher Neil , Andrew Gold , Graham Gouldman Reviews Last album Magnetic Heaven br 1986 This album American English br 1987 Next album 100,000 in Fresh Notes br 1988 Misc Singles Name American English Type studio Single 1 In Some Other World Single 1 date Start date 1986 Single 2 Bridge to Your Heart Single 2 date Start date 1987 7 Single 3 American English Single 3 date Start date 1987 American English is a 1987 album by Wax pop band Wax , and includes their hit single Bridge to Your Heart . The album cover, designed by Storm Thorgerson , shows objects that all refer to wax. ref cite web url http www.andrewgold.com photo42.htm title Andrew Gold website accessdate 2008 06 22 ref Track listing All songs were written by Andrew Gold and Graham Gouldman , except where noted. Side one American English 4 25 In Some Other World 4 45 Ready or Not 3 31 Call It Destiny 4 03 Bridge to Your Heart 4 14 Side two li value 6 Share the Glory Paul Bliss, Phil Palmer 3 56 Alright Tonight 4 14 The Promise 3 14 Heaven in Her Bed 4 36 Bug in the Machine 4 21 Personnel Andrew Gold vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, guitar on track 10, drums and programming, production on tracks 4, 9, and 10 Graham Gouldman bass guitar, backing vocals, guitar on tracks 1 5, and 7 9, vocals on track 10, production on tracks 4, 9, and 10 Christopher Neil production on tracks 1 3, and 5 8, backing vocals Phil Palmer guitar on track 6 Adrian Lee keyboards Paul Wickens Wix keyboards Peter Van Hooke drums and programming Paul Carrack backing vocals Tessa Niles backing vocals Jackie Rawe backing vocals Lorna Wright voice on track 1 Raissa Danilou voice on track 1 Kyoko Ono voice on track 1 Ruth Cuenca voice on track 1 Simon Hurrell engineer, recording ...   more details



  1. American English Coonhound

    Hound akcstd http www.akc.org breeds american english coonhound End Infobox The American English Coonhound , also referred to as the English Coonhound or the Redtick Coonhound , is a dog breed breed of dog ... into the American Kennel Club s Foundation Stock Service as the American English Coonhound in 1995. ref name akcdyk cite web title American English Coonhound Did You Know? url http www.akc.org breeds american english coonhound did you know.cfm publisher American Kennel Club accessdate 5 February ... breed, ref name akcdyk the American English Coonhound became eligible to compete in the National ... 2012 newspaper Time date 24 November 2011 ref Description Male American English Coonhounds measure ... diversity in the breed. Temperament American English Coonhounds tend to be quiet in the house ... breed in coon hunting. ref name northamericanbook Health American English Coonhounds can be prone ... fi Englanninpesukarhukoira sv American English Coonhound ... for more info. image English Coonhound.jpg image alt image caption A female redtick English Coonhound name English Coonhound altname English Coonhound br Redtick Coonhound country United States ... Club in 1905 as the English Fox and Coonhound. Further recognition has been granted in recent years by the American Kennel Club , first in the Foundation Stock Service and in 2011 as a fully recognized ... States , George Washington . ref name ukcstandard cite web title English Coonhound url http ... They were used to hunt racoon s by night and the American Red Fox by day. ref cite web title American English Coonhound History url http www.akc.org breeds american english coonhound history.cfm publisher American Kennel Club accessdate 5 February 2012 ref It was recognized by the United Kennel Club UKC in 1905 as the English Fox and Coonhound. ref name northamericanbook The Treeing Walker Coonhound was recognized separately by the UKC in 1945, splitting it off from the English Fox and Coonhound ...   more details



  1. North?Central American English

    Refimprove date May 2007 North Central American English is used to refer to a dialect of American English . The region is also known as Upper Midwest among some linguists. ref name Allen It is also sometimes called the Minnesota Accent or Great Lakes Accent . Who date September 2010 It is widely spoken in the Upper Midwest and the northern portion of the central United States bordering Canada . This dialect region includes parts of Montana , North Dakota , South Dakota , Minnesota , parts of Wisconsin and Iowa , and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan . It is considered a residual region, distinct from the neighboring regions of the Western United States West , the Northern United States North , and Canada ... title The Atlas of North American English publisher Mouton de Gruyter year 2006 location Berlin isbn ... also Yooper dialect North American English regional phonology Regional vocabularies of American English References Reflist 2 Further reading Kortmand, Bernd, Schneider, Edgar W. 2004 . A Handbook of Varieties of English. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110175320, 9783110175325 English dialects by continent Category American English Category Iowa culture Category Michigan culture Category Minnesota culture ... speakers of other languages have had an influence such as the Pennsylvania Dutch English Pennsylvania Dutch region . ref Thomas, Erik R. 2001 . An Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Variation in New World English . Publication of the American Dialect Society 85. Durham Duke University Press. ISBN 0822364948 ... heard in this region may stem from the influence of Mid Ulster English Scots Irish or other British dialects that maintain such forms. The fact that the monophthongs also appear in Canadian English ... United States journal American Speech volume 62 issue 3 pages 195 210 publisher Duke University ... I. McDavid title The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States publisher University of Michigan ... first vowel as Sharon , Sarah , and bearing . This merger is widespread throughout the Midwest , American ...   more details



  1. Ron English (American football)

    About the American football coach the artist Ron English artist Infobox college coach name Ron English image image size alt caption sport American football Football current title Head coach current team Eastern Michigan Eagles football Eastern Michigan current conference Mid American Conference current ... of the Year 2006 br Mid American Conference football awards Coach of the Year MAC Coach of the Year 2011 coaching records CFBHOF year CFBHOF id Ron English born May 21, 1968 is an American football ... s New York Jets . In the 2006 season, English coached only Safety American football position safeties ... American Conference football coach navbox Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME English ... Bears football California player positions Safety American football position Safety coach years 1992 ... Report English to be announced as EMU coach ESPN.com, December 20, 2008 ref Playing career and education From 1987 to 1990, English attended and played college football at the University of California ... s degree in education administration from Arizona State University . Coaching career English has ..., Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr persuaded English to stay on as the defensive coordinator after Jim ... as defensive coordinator. English s defense showed great success against most run heavy ... s retirement at the end of the 2007 season, English, along with all of the assistant coaches at Michigan ... . English interviewed for the head coaching vacancies at the University of Arkansas and at Michigan ... . English was hired as head coach at Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan in December 2008. At the time of his hiring by Eastern Michigan, he was one of six African American head coaches at Football ... Will Hire Ron English SI.com, December 21, 2008. ref Eastern Michigan compiled a 0&ndash 12 record in 2009 ... Record Subhead name Eastern Michigan Eagles football Eastern Michigan Eagles conf Mid American Conference ... Michigan profile http uoflsports.cstv.com sports m footbl mtt english ron00.html Louisville profile ...   more details



  1. African American Vernacular English

    African American topics sidebar right IPA notice lang en African American Vernacular English AAVE also called African American English less precisely Black English , Black Vernacular , Black English Vernacular BEV , or Black Vernacular English BVE is an African American Variety linguistics variety dialect , ethnolect and sociolect of American English . Non linguists sometimes call it Ebonics a term ... respects, common to Southern American English , which is spoken by many African Americans and many ... Mufwene, What is African American English? , and Guy Bailey, The relationship between African American Vernacular English and White Vernaculars in the American South A sociocultural history and some ... American English, Varieties of English around the World Amsterdam John Benjamins, 2001 . ref while ... uses of this variety of English, particularly in African American literature . Overview AAVE ... are shared with English dialects spoken in the American South . While these are mostly regionalisms ... it from Standard American English SAE include specific pronunciation features along definable ... a number of words of African origin to Standard American English, including gumbo , ref Shorter ... While it is clear that there is a strong relationship between AAVE and Southern American English ... between AAVE and Standard American English is clear to speakers, some characteristics, notably ... in has been are also characteristic of general colloquial American English. Phonology There is near ... a feature of many Southern American English dialects . The vowel sound in boil IPA in Standard ... Green 2002 pp 73 74 ref Negation Negatives are formed differently from standard American English ... are not part of Standard American English or have strikingly different meanings from their common ... Dictionary of American Regional English, s.v. Paddy . ref Ofay , which is pejorative , is another ... , most speakers of AAVE are bidialectal, being able to use Standard American English to varying degrees ...   more details



  1. Southern American English

    thumb 300px Approximate extent of Southern American English, based upon multiple dialect ... of pin and pen in Southern American English. In the purple areas, the merger is complete for most ... Labov Ash Boberg 2006 p 68 . Southern American English is a group of dialect s of the English language ... dialects make up the largest Dialects of North American English accent group in the United States ... 2007 08 15 publisher http www.pbs.org pbs.org ref Southern American English can be divided into several regional sub dialects. African American Vernacular English AAVE has common points with Southern ... dialects The Southern dialects collectively known as Southern American English stretch across ... variation between the regions of the South see the Dialects different southern American English .... ref Harvcoltxt Labov Ash Boberg 2006 pp 69 73 ref Shared features File Southern American English phonology.png ... English and newer Southern American English. Note please put only examples of GRAMMAR in this section ... dialects found across the Southern United States , collectively known as Southern American English ... American English and South Midland Southern American English. ref name EOHC Cite web last Southard ... title neutral ground publisher The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Fourth Edition ... The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Fourth Edition year 2000 accessdate ... dialects. African American Vernacular English Main African American Vernacular English This type of Southern American English originated in the Southern States where Africans were at that time ... English to communicate with their masters and one another. Since the slave masters spoke Southern American ... by these slaves developed into what is now African American Vernacular English , which retains many ... partially based on AAVE, since that dialect of English was modeled after American English and not British English . See also Drawl Southern literature Regional vocabularies of American English ...   more details



  1. Dictionary of American Regional English

    Infobox book series name Dictionary of American br Regional English image include the file, px and alt ... illustrator cover artist country USA language American English genre Dictionary , reference work publisher ... The Dictionary of American Regional English DARE or Dictionary is a record of American English as spoken ... of the country. ref Ed. Frederic G. Cassidy. Dictionary of American Regional English , Cambridge, MA ... G. Cassidy. Dictionary of American Regional English , Cambridge, MA Belknap Press of Harvard ... the English Dialect Dictionary , a group of American philologists founded the American Dialect Society ... Language Survey . ref Ed. Frederic G. Cassidy. Dictionary of American Regional English , Cambridge ... G. Cassidy. Dictionary of American Regional English , Cambridge, MA Belknap Press of Harvard University ... of American Regional English. Language in the USA Perspectives for the 21st Century . Eds ... as an index. ref Ed. Frederic G. Cassidy. Dictionary of American Regional English , Cambridge, MA ... of American Regional English , Cambridge, MA Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Volume ... of American Regional English , Cambridge, MA Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Volume I, 1985 ... are listed below ref Ed. Frederic G. Cassidy. Dictionary of American Regional English , Cambridge, MA ... to elicit all significant pronunciation variants in American English, allows comparison ... of American Regional English url http www.nsf.gov awardsearch showAward.do?AwardNumber 0841949&version ... 2011 09 29 ref General references refbegin Dictionary of American Regional English , Volume I, A C ... the Dictionary of American Regional English , 2005. An Index by Region, Usage, and Etymology to the Dictionary of American Regional English, Volumes I and II. Publication of the American Dialect ... to the Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume III. Publication of the American Dialect Society ... of American Regional English official website, hosted by The University of Wisconsin Madison http ...   more details



  1. Regional vocabularies of American English

    for variations in the pronunciation of spoken English in North America North American English regional phonology Regional vocabularies of American English vary. Below is a list of lexicon lexical differences ... the North, the Midland American English Midland , and the South many of these terms spread ... lexical variables include ref Examples in this section are from the Dictionary of American Regional English 2002 , except where otherwise noted. ref ref name DARE Cassidy, Frederic Gomes, and Joan Houston Hall eds . 2002 Dictionary of American Regional English . Cambridge, MA Harvard University ... American regional English today . New York Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ref frying pan North and South ... Survey queried North American English speakers usage of a variety of linguistic items, including ... dialect areas of the United States. The Northeast See also Northeastern American English brook ... also Inland Northern American English North Central American English braht or brat bratwurst ref name ..., Missouri , where soda predominates ref name PopSoda The South see also Southern American English ... away also over yonder ref Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling Estes. 2006 American English dialects .... from Chinook Jargon ref name OED2 See also American and British English differences section Lexis vocabulary Baltimorese Pittsburgh English General American List of dialects of the English language ... Dictionary of American Regional English http www.citydictionary.com City Dictionary User generated dictionaries for regional language in the United States English dialects by continent Category American English R Category American slang Category City colloquials American Category Lexis linguistics American ... . 1971 Readings in American Dialectology . New York Appleton Century Crofts. ref and skillet Midland ... dialect Central Pennsylvania accent Northeast Pennsylvania English Pennsylvania Dutch English ... Yoopers, and Proud of it. New York Times, section A, page 16. ref The Midland See also Midland American ...   more details



  1. Corpus of Contemporary American English

    corpus, and the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English COHA , 1810s 2000s see links ... Davies first Mark title The Corpus of Contemporary American English as the First Reliable Monitor Corpus of English work Literary and Linguistic Computing volume 25 issue 4 pages 447 65 year 2010 doi ... Word Corpus of Contemporary American English 1990 present work International Journal of Corpus Linguistics ... Refend External links http corpus.byu.edu coca Website for the Corpus of Contemporary American English COCA http corpus.byu.edu Other large online corpora from BYU Dictionaries of English Category Corpora Category Online databases Category English language Category Applied linguistics Category Linguistic ... through the web interface, due to copyright restrictions. See also American National Corpus ... first2 John last2 Corbett title Exploring English with Online Corpora publisher Palgrave Macmillan ... of English publisher Edinburgh University Press year 2009 isbn 9780748626151 Cite journal last ...   more details



  1. American and British English differences

    British English and American English , which, for the purposes of these articles , are defined as follows American and British English differences British English BrE is the form of English used in the United Kingdom. It includes all English dialect s used within the United Kingdom. American English ... the United States. Written forms of British and American English as found in newspapers and textbooks ... 26 December 2011 ref An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result ... of American Regional English DARE ref Despite this unofficial standard, regional variations of American ... regional variations of spoken American English Northern, Southern American English Southern , Midland American English Midland , and Western. ref Labov, William Sharon Ash & Charles Boberg. 2006 . Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change. Berlin New York Mouton de Gruyter ... of American English. Linguistics Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania. http www.ling.upenn.edu ... Appalachia and New York. British and American English are the reference norms for English ... new American English forms quickly become familiar outside of the United States. Although most dialects ... , ref http books.google.ca books?id ia5tHVtQPn8C&pg PA268&dq 22northern american english 22&ei gbfRSJuAFYTMigGCvf3mAw ... originated as a variant of northern American English the speech of New England, New York, New ... of english number of native speakers . ref For the most part American vocabulary, phonology ... English rather than American English Trudgill and Hannah, 2002 . Nonetheless Canadian English also .... ref ref Indian English has actually more English language speakers than the total of North American ... in a few minor ways, leading to the dialect s now occasionally referred to as American English and British .... This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say ... . Henry Sweet incorrectly predicted in 1877 that within a century American English, Australian ...   more details



  1. Midland American English

    Refimprove date June 2009 cleanup date June 2008 The Midland dialect of American English was first defined by Hans Kurath A Word Geography of the Eastern United States , 1949 as being the dialect spoken ... Labov Labov , Ash, and Boberg The Atlas of North American English , 2006 , based solely on phonology and phonetics , defined the Midland area as a buffer zone between the Inland Northern American English Inland North and the Southern American English South this area essentially coincides with Kurath ... American English West . Major cities of this dialect area include Kansas City, Missouri ... Northern American English Northern dialect region in the first half of the 20th century. However, unlike ... Midland is discussed in greater detail in Southern American English . St. Louis and vicinity St ... Ash, and Charles Boberg 2006 . The Atlas of North American English. Berlin Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3 11 016746 8 English dialects by continent Category American English ... of the Appalachian Mountains . Kurath and McDavid The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States ... of the Ohio River valley area, and the South Midland . Craig M. Carver American Regional Dialects ... General American . ref http webspace.ship.edu cgboer dialectsofenglish.html ref General features ... 265. ref advanced fronting of IPA o the phoneme IPA o as in boat is fronter than in many other American ... a so called Phonological history of English short A Non phonemic tensing continuous distribution ... and lower than in the rest of the North Midland. see also Pittsburgh English The dialect of Western ... speakers, usually older generations, have IPA e instead of Standard English IPA before IPA ... warsh . The diphthong IPA in standard English becomes more like IPA . For example, words such as oil ... is similar to that of Phonological history of English short A Phonemic tensing in the Mid Atlantic ... younger speakers to a Phonological history of English short A Non phonemic tensing nasal system ...   more details



  1. Inland Northern American English

    belong to the Midland American English Midland region, have also begun taking on features of the Inland ... IPA ba . Vocabulary See also Regional vocabularies of American English The North Note that not all ... also Portalbox United States Language List of dialects of the English language American English regional differences North Central American English Northern cities vowel shift References reflist Sources Labov, William, Sharon Ash, and Charles Boberg 2006 . The Atlas of North American English. Berlin ..., NY http www.ling.upenn.edu phono atlas maps MapsIN TelsurIN.html Telsur Project Maps English dialects by continent Category American English Category Culture of Buffalo, New York Category Culture ... that is traditionally regarded as the basis for General American in the mid 20th century, ref http ... in the Midwest . As in General American, Inland North speech is Rhotic and non rhotic accents rhotic ... the Midwest , American West West , and Canada . The Inland North does not undergo the Phonological history of English low back vowels Cot caught merger cot caught merger . Many speakers in the region ... other North American accents and the nucleus of IPA a may be more backed than in some other North American accents. Like IPA a , the nucleus of IPA o as in go and boat remains a back vowel ... to Buffalo English http 206.152.228.42 index.php?option com content&task view&id 26428&Itemid 251 Nick ... change changin summary PBS resource from the show Do you Speak American? http www.bigorbitgallery.org ...   more details



  1. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature

    Image The.Cambridge.History.of.English.and.American.Literature.gif right The Cambridge History of English and American Literature was published by Cambridge University Press in 1907 1921. ref http www.nla.gov.au pathways jnls newsite view 670.html Cambridge History of English and American Literature , National Library of Australia . ref The 18 volumes include 303 chapters and more than 11,000 pages edited and written by a worldwide panel of 171 leading scholars and thinkers of the early twentieth century. The English literature chapters begin with Old English poetry and end with the late Victorian era . Coverage of American literature ranges from colonial and revolutionary periods through the early twentieth century. Bartleby.com published the work online in 2000, ref http www.bartleby.com cambridge The Cambridge History of English and American Literature , Bartleby.com . ref its presentation divides the work by subject into over 5,600 files, which are full text searchable, and includes indexes by chapter, bibliography, and chapter author. It contains biographical information and bibliographies on major individuals and literary movements. References reflist External links wikisource The Cambridge History of American Literature http www.archive.org search.php?query title 3A 22The 20Cambridge 20history 20of 20English 22 20AND 20mediatype 3Atexts The Cambridge History of English and American Literature at Internet Archive scanned books original editions color illustrated ref book stub DEFAULTSORT Cambridge History of English and American Literature Category 1907 books Category 1921 books Category British non fiction literature Category History of literature in the United Kingdom Category Cambridge University Press books History of English and American Literature Category American literature Category Reference works in the public domain Category Free e books de The Cambridge History of English and American Literature ...   more details



  1. The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

    Italic title Infobox book name The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature image author Elizabeth Kantor cover artist publisher Regnery Publishing release date November 2006 media type Hardback & Paperback pages 288 size weight isbn 1596980117 series The Politically Incorrect Guide The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature is the sixth book in Regnery Publishing s Politically Incorrect Guide series, published in December 2006. The book argues that the study of literature in universities today is distorted by theories developed in the 1960s at Yale ref http article.nationalreview.com ?q NTRmYWJiZGZkOWVhNTkxMDFjZTMzNjg2MTc4OWExZTU Three Cheers for the Patriarchy ref and expanding through the 1970s and 1980s that are aimed at attacking western civilization and Christianity for their alleged racism and sexism ref http www.carolinajournal.com exclusives display exclusive.html?id 4902 Friday Interview Importance of Literature ref . This critical theory is believed by Kantor to have caused professors to replace the well established literary canon ..., Elizabeth The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature p. 189 198. ref The main body of The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature , however, is focused upon an overview of the Western canon classic canon of English literature extending from Beowulf to Evelyn Waugh . There is another chapter after this discussing American literature from Nathaniel ... Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature never made the New York Times Best Seller list ... Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature, The Category 2006 books Category Books of literary criticism Category American non fiction books Category Regnery Publishing books ... authors Along with these are a list of important themes to the classic canon of English literature ... Guide to American History American History , The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades ...   more details



  1. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

    File AHD.jpg thumb right 300px The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language AHD is an American English American dictionary of the English ... titledetail.cfm?titleNumber 1034296 The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. ref See also Pronunciation respelling for English , which compares the pronunciation respelling ... ahd Official website http education.yahoo.com reference dictionary American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language online http www.bartleby.com 61 Bartleby s American Heritage Dictionary online http www.bartleby.com 64 The American Heritage Book of English Usage http www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com epub ahd4.shtml The American Heritage Dictionary Software http courses.ischool.berkeley.edu i290 10 f05 AHDGlobe.html Boston Globe review of the AHD 3rd edition 1992 American Heritage Dictionaries of English DEFAULTSORT American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language Category 1969 books Category English dictionaries Category American English bn de ... over the Webster s Third New International Dictionary . History James Parton American Heritage James Parton , the owner of the history magazine American Heritage magazine American Heritage , was appalled ... Usage notes and the American heritage dictionary, American Speech, Fall 1996, Vol. 71 Issue 3 ... his own opinions. ref John Ottenhoff, The perils of prescriptivism Usage notes and the American heritage dictionary, American Speech, Fall 1996, Vol. 71 Issue 3, p272 85 ref Linguistics The AHD ..., the American Heritage Dictionary relies on the advice of a usage panel. In its current form ... Deleted image removed File The American Heritage Dictionary Cover1.JPG thumb left Cover of the dictionary ... around one of some thousand Proto Indo European roots and the English words of the AHD that are understood ... or Random House Dictionary of the English Language The Random House Dictionary of the English Language ...   more details




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