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 ... 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 ... accents prescribe and considerably liberal accents have , Southern American English may have ... to some of y all, thereby functioning similarly to all of you in standard English. In rural Southern ... 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 ... the English spoken in other regions of the United States, features that identify those dialects as Southern ... American English and South Midland Southern American English. ref name EOHC Cite web last Southard ... Gulf Southern and Mississippi Delta This area of the South was settled by English speakers moving west ... words as pronounced by the Gullahs, on the basis of influence from Southern and Western English ... of Southern American English originated in the Southern States where Africans were at that time held ... and not British English . See also Drawl Southern literature Regional vocabularies of American English ... features of southern speech editor In Stephen J. Nagel and Sara L. Sanders, eds., title English ...., title English in the Southern United States year 2003 location Cambridge publisher Cambridge University ... more details
English in southern England or southernEnglishEnglish is a phrase given to describe the different dialects and accents of the English language in England English spoken in southern England . South East ... difference between Lutonian and other SouthernEnglish accents is the pronunciation of the letter ... ref References Reflist br English dialects by continent DEFAULTSORT British English In Southern England ... distance of London. Less affluent areas have London like accents that grade into southern rural outside ... and IPA , as in Australian English . See Phonological history of English short A Bad lad split bad ... West End? . Sloane speak Sloane speak or Sloaney speech is a variety of English spoken by the upper ... dental fricative consonant fricatives IPA , are Phonological history of English consonants ... to IPA , for example south IPA s f Phonological history of English consonants H ... dark L to IPA , for example, people IPA p ip Multicultural London English Main Multicultural London English Multicultural London English abbreviated MLE , colloquially called Blockney or Jafaican , is a dialect and or sociolect of English language English that emerged in the late 20th century ... accent. For example, in Jamaican English , IPA is replaced by IPA t , for example both IPA bo t ... , is usually associated with Estuary English, mainly in urban areas receiving an influx of East London ... London and East End migration to these areas since WWII. Estuary Main Estuary English Estuary English ... history of English consonants H dropping H dropping and the replacement of IPA , with IPA ... positions, the Speech production vocalisation of IPA dark L to IPA o , and English consonant cluster ... it can be argued that the dialect is one which sounds more like East Midlands English . Jafaican ... American Vernacular English African American American English influences such as the greeting Yo , but also ... around London. Southern Rural and West Country accents Main West Country dialects This family ... more details
English may refer to something of, from, or related to England , especially The English language The English people English grammar as a primary or secondary school subject matter Places English, Indiana , United States English Township, Jersey County, Illinois , United States English Coast , Antarctica Other English surname , people with the family name EnglishENGLISH programming language English major , an academic curriculum involving the study of English literature or English writing at a post primary level, a student taking this curriculum, or a student who has completed and graduated from it English studies , the study of English language and literature, often as a school subject English, a chiefly American expression for Glossary of cue sports terms english side spin of a ball in sports Chess openings English Opening English Defense lookfrom English intitle Disambiguation geo de English es English desambiguaci n fa fr English ilo English panangilawlawag pl English ru English simple English tr English vo English ... more details
Middle English language Middle English colspan 2 style text align center background dcf small Early Midland & Southeastern br Middle English language Middle English colspan 2 style text align center background dbf small Early Southern & Southwestern br Middle English language Middle English style text ... Early Modern English style text align center background daf small Southern Early Modern English style ... background daf small SouthernEnglishEnglishSouthern Modern English style text align center background ... West Germanic fam4 Anglo Frisian languages Anglo Frisian fam5 Old English child1 English language English child2 Fingalian language Fingalian child3 Scots language Scots child4 Yola language Yola The English languages also called the Anglic languages ref J. Derrick McClure Scots its range of Uses ... Burns McArthur, The English Languages, Cambridge University Press, 1998. p.203 ref or Insular Germanic ... linguistics linguistic varieties including Old English and the languages descended from it. ref ..., West, English publisher Ethnologue.com date accessdate 2010 09 10 ref These include Middle English , Early Modern English , and English language Modern English Early Scots , Middle Scots , and Modern Scots and the now extinct Yola language Yola and Fingalian language Fingalian in Ireland. English ..., comes from English. border 0 colspan 6 style text align center background ccf Old English language Old English Northumbrian language Northumbrian , Mercian Old English Mercian , Kentish Old English ... br Middle English language Middle English style text align center background dcf small Midland br Middle English language Middle English style text align center background dcf small Southeastern br Middle English language Middle English style text align center background dbf small Southern br Middle English language Middle English style text align center background dbf small Southwestern br Middle English language Middle English style text align center background bbf small Middle Scots style ... more details
North English may refer to North English, Iowa , a city in the United States. The EnglishEnglish Northern England North English dialect and accent of the English language. dab ... more details
mergefrom English major date May 2009 mergefrom English literary studies date January 2011 Refimprove date October 2008 pp move indef English Studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literature s written in the English language including literatures from the United Kingdom UK , the United ... literature in English the Philippines , India , South Africa , and the Middle East , among other areas , English linguistics including English phonetics , phonology , syntax , morphology linguistics ... , and English sociolinguistics including discourse analysis of written and spoken texts in the English language, the history of the English language , English language learning and teaching , and the study of World English es . More broadly, English studies explores the production and analysis of texts created in English or in areas of the world in which English is a common mode of communication . It is not uncommon for academic departments of English or English Studies to include scholars of the English language , English literature literature including literary criticism and literary ... and humanities , among others. In most English speaking countries, the literary and cultural dimensions of English studies are typically practiced in university Academic discipline departments of English, while the study of texts produced in non English languages takes place in other departments, such as departments of foreign language or comparative literature . English linguistics is often studied ... MLA into two subgroups. At universities in non English speaking countries, the same department often covers all aspects of English studies including linguistics this is reflected, for example, in the structure and activities of the European Society for the Study of English ESSE . History of English Studies Initially, English Studies comprised a motley array of content the practice of oratory ... countries, English Philology , a strongly positivistic and historically interested practice of reading ... more details
publisher Praeger location Westport, CT date 1999 pages 67 79 chapter Southern Mountain English The Language of the Ozarks and Southern Appalachia isbn 0275962466 cite journal author Suzette H. Elgin ...Ozark English is a dialect of American English , spoken in the The Ozarks Ozark Mountain region of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri , that is more closely related to Appalachian English than to the Midland American English North Midland North Midland and Southern American English Midland and Highland South Midland dialects of the surrounding regions. ref Linda L. Blanton, Southern Appalachia Social Considerations of Speech , in J. L. Dillard, Toward a Social History of American English Berlin Mouton, 1985 , http books.google.com books?lr &id 6XZxy1y GAoC&dq 22Ozark English 22&pg PA88&lpg PA88&sig ACfU3U0j19kNlSEsHA8G01d 5QmkEY5WKQ&q Ozark PPA83,M1 p. 83 ref Its distinctive features include phonological idiosyncrasies many of which it shares with Appalachian English ref A. Lynn Williams, Speech Disorders Resource Guide for Preschool Children Clifton Park Thomson Delmar, 2003 , http books.google.com books?id hbtrLuhUaQgC&pg PA43&dq 22Ozark English 22 phonology&lr p. 43 ref certain syntactic patterns, such as the use of for to , rather than to , before infinitives in some constructions ref Alison Henry, Belfast English and Standard English Dialect Variation and Parameter Setting New York Oxford UP, 1995 , http books.google.com books?lr &id Q7Jcdt1ft EC&dq 22Ozark English 22&pg PA101&lpg PA101&sig ACfU3U2hzZ5YT1a aP4NUgBQFbhHx 6Vew&q Ozark PPA81,M1 p. 81 ref and a number of lexical ... English and Ozark English author Donna Christian, Walt Wolfram, and Nanjo Dube date 1988 location ... 1 issue 2 pages 2 7 cite journal author Suzette H. Elgin date 1983 title On Cows and the Ozark English ... date 1993 title Notes on the For To Complement in Ozark English journal Ozark English Quarterly volume ... English and Ozark English in the Encyclopedia of Appalachia Category American English lang stub ... more details
King s English may refer to Received Pronunciation , a form of English language pronunciation sometimes known as the Queen s English or the King s English The King s English , a book on English language English usage and grammar, first published in 1906 disambig ... more details
Joe English may refer to Joe English loyalist Joe English musician Joe English painter hndis English, Joe Template Longcomment added to the page to prevent it being listed on Special Shortpages. fr Joe English nl Joe English ... more details
About rivers named English River a list of rivers in England List of rivers of England English River may refer to English River Iowa , United States English River Ontario , Canada, a river English River, Ontario , a town English River, Seychelles , known as La Rivi re Anglaise in French geodis de English River pl English River ... more details
for the English band Modern English band Infobox language name Modern English nativename English region ... languages Anglo Frisian iso1 en iso2 eng iso3 eng notice IPA Modern English is the form of the English ... and the King James Bible , are considered to be in Modern English, or more specifically, are referred to as using Early Modern English or Elizabeth I of England Elizabethan English. English was adopted ... through colonisation by the British Empire . Modern English has a large number of dialects spoken in diverse countries throughout the world. This includes American English , Australian English , British English , Canadian English , Caribbean English , Hiberno English , Indo Pakistani English , Nigerian English , New Zealand English , Philippine English , Singaporean English , and South African English . According to the Ethnologue , there are over 1 billion speakers of English as a first or second language as of 1999. English is spoken in a vast number of territories including the United Kingdom ... , Pakistan , Philippines , Singapore and Southern Africa . Its large number of speakers, plus its worldwide presence, have made English a lingua franca common language for use in such diverse applications ... relations. Influences Early Modern English lacked uniformity in spelling, but Samuel Johnson s dictionary ... Webster did the same in America, publishing his dictionary in 1828 see American and British English ... words entered English from other languages as a result of contact with other cultures through trade ... of the major changes in Modern English compared to its previous form Middle English . Note, however ... Main Phonological history of the English language Up to the American British split Phonological history of the English language After American British split, up to the 20th century Syntax disuse ... practices. The letter thorn letter thorn , which was already being replaced by th in Middle English ... of the Latin alphabet during this period. Consequently, Modern English came to use a purely English ... more details
About the international standard of English classification of Englishes around the world World Englishes Use British English date December 2010 International English is the concept of the English language ... standard for the language. It is also referred to as Global English , ref http community.elearners.com blogs atsu archive 2009 12 28 do they speak english in what.aspx Do They Speak English In What? ref World English , Common English , Continental English , General English , Engas English as associate ... of English spoken throughout the world. Sometimes, international English and the related terms above refer to a desired standardisation, i.e. Standard English however, there is no consensus on the path to this goal. There have been many proposals for making International English more accessible to people from different nationalities. Basic English is an example, but it failed to make progress. More recently, there have been proposals for English as a lingua franca ELF . It has also been argued that International English is held back by its traditional spelling. There has been slow progress ... also History of the English language The modern concept of International English does not exist in isolation, but is the product of centuries of development of the English language . The English language ... Anglish , the language today referred to as Anglo Saxon or Old English the language of the poem Beowulf . English is thus more closely related to West Frisian language West Frisian than to any other modern language, although less than a quarter of the vocabulary of Modern English is shared with West ... Saxon period that Old English was influenced by contact with Norse language Norse , a group ... of England known as the Danelaw . Vocabulary items entering English from Norse including the pronouns ... the Norman Period, English absorbed a significant component of French vocabulary approximately one third of the vocabulary of Modern English . With this new vocabulary, additional vocabulary borrowed ... more details
File LocationBermuda.png thumb right Bermuda in respect to the Southern United States and the Greater Antilles . Bermudian English is a Regional accents of English regional accent of English found in Bermuda , a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic . Standard English is used in professional settings and in writing, while vernacular Bermudian English is spoken on more casual occasions . ref ... settlement in the early 17th century, and retains traits of Early Modern English Elizabethan English . ref Petrone, Kelly. http www.bermudatourism.com Press skins aqua Cover Letter.pdf Welcome ... British English British , American English American or Caribbean English Caribbean they also ... Bermudian English has been called one of the most severely underresearched varieties of English ... 018418 4. p. 2066. ref It primarily shows a mixture of traits typical of British English and American English, and is generally classified as a form of American rather than Caribbean English. ref Tom McArthur ed. , Oxford Companion to the English Language . Oxford and New York Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN 0 19 214183 X. pp. 116, 352. ref The most detailed scholarly study of Bermudian English ..., Norfolk, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina ref Harry Morgan Ayres, Bermudian English , American ... aspects of vocalization, however, Bermudian English is close to some versions of Caribbean English, ref Cecilia Cutler, English in the Turks and Caicos Islands A look at Grand Turk in Contact Englishes ... 80. ISBN 90 272 4890 7. p. 60. ref and some would bracket all these varieties to the broad region of the English speaking West Indies . ref John Wells, Accents of English 3 Beyond the British Isles . Cambridge ... w , characteristic of many dialects in Southern England during the 18th and 19th centuries, ref ... Standard British English and Cockney. A Historical Outline of the Parallel Developments ... Reflist Navboxes title Articles Related to Bermudian English list English dialects by continent ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2007 Northern English is a group of dialects of the English language . It includes the north east England dialects. Among the other dialects are Cumbrian, the various Yorkshire dialects, Lanky Dialect of Lancashire and Scouse. Northern English shows Viking influence because the area was all north of the Danelaw . Norwegian has had a greater impact on most northern dialects than Danish, but the East Riding of Yorkshire has been influenced more by Danish. Northern English is one of the major groupings of EnglishEnglish dialects other major groupings include East Anglian English , East Midlands English East and West Midlands English West Midlands English and SouthernEnglishEnglishSouthernEnglish . Varieties Northern English contains Cumbrian dialect Geordie spoken in the Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle Tyneside area which includes southern parts of Northumberland and northern parts of County Durham Lancashire dialect and accent the various Lancashire dialects and accents Mackem spoken in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear Sunderland Wearside Manchester dialect Mancunian spoken in Manchester , Salford, Greater Manchester Salford , various other areas of Greater Manchester , parts of Lancashire and eastern Cheshire . Pitmatic two variations one spoken in the former mining ... and East ridings. Common features of most Northern English accents There are several accent ... history of English high back vowels Foot strut split foot strut split is absent in Northern English, so that cut and put rhyme and are both pronounced with IPA . This has led to Northern ... of most southern accents. This pronunciation is found in the words that were affected by the trap ... forms of American English . In most areas, the letter y on the end of words as in happy or city is pronounced ... references Further reading cite book title Northern English A Social and Cultural History author Katie ... rule Scottish EnglishEnglish dialects by continent Category British English Category English language ... more details
or English as spoken in England, which comprises SouthernEnglishEnglishSouthernEnglish dialects .... Page 20 ref Regional The form of English most commonly associated with the upper class in the southern ...Use British English date November 2010 American and British English differences British English or BrEn , BrE , BE , en UK or en GB ref code en GB code is the language code for British English , as defined ... tag . ref , is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere. ref Peters, p. 79. ref The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English as spoken or written in the British Isles esp ecially the forms of English usual in Great Britain , reserving Hiberno English for the English language as spoken and written in Ireland . ref cite book title Oxford English Dictionary publisher Oxford University Press location Oxford, England year 1989 edition 2 chapter British English Hiberno English ref Nevertheless, Hiberno English forms part of the broad British English continuum. There are slight regional variations in formal written English in the United Kingdom . For example, although the words wiktionary wee wee and little ... Ireland , whereas in Southern England and Wales , little is used predominantly. Nevertheless, there is a meaningful degree of uniformity in written English within the United Kingdom, and this could be described by the term British English . The forms of spoken English, however, vary considerably more than in most other areas of the world where English is spoken, ref cite news first Stuart last Jeffries url http www.guardian.co.uk uk 2009 mar 27 regional english dialects title The G2 Guide to Regional English journal The Guardian date 27 March 2009 at section G2, p. 12 ref so a uniform concept of British English is more difficult to apply to the spoken language. According to Tom McArthur in the Oxford Guide to World English , For many people . . . especially in England British English ... more details
Jersey English may refer to two varieties of the English language New Jersey English , from New Jersey, USA Jersey Accent , from the island of Jersey in the English Channel disambig ... more details
Midlands English refers to a number of distinct dialects spoken in the English Midlands The UK . It may refer to East Midlands English West Midlands English disambig ... more details
English, Texas may refer to places in the United States English, Brazoria County, Texas English, Red River County, Texas See also Texan English geodis ... more details
Robert English may refer to Robert D. English born 1958 , American historian Robert Henry English 1888 1943 , American admiral Robert English actor 1878 ? , British actor Robert English Coast , a portion of the coast of Antarctica hndis English, Robert DEFAULTSORT English, Robert ... more details
The English Opera may refer to The Lyceum Theatre, London , commonly known as the The English Opera or The English Opera House until the 1840s. The English National Opera , an English opera company founded by Lilian Baylis The Palace Theatre, London , originally named the Royal English Opera House was intended as a home for English Grand Opera Disambig ... more details
David English may refer to Melvin Franklin David Melvin English, 1942 1995 , American bass singer Sir David English editor 1931 1998 , British newspaper editor hndis English, David DEFAULTSORT English, David ... more details
Various English literature university departments or programs are known as the School of English . Articles on such schools include School of English University of Wales, Bangor Queen s School of English , at Queen s University in Canada See also The English School , various schools dab ... more details
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