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List of dialects of English. Dialects are linguistic varieties that may differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling, and other aspects of grammar. For the classification of varieties of English only in of pronunciation, see regional accents of English .
English in England can be divided into four major dialect regions: South East English, South West English (also known as West Country English), Midlands English and Northern English.
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Mar 24, 2021 · Thus, from the fourth century, England or ‘Angle-land’, had an eclectic range of dialects emerging. Eventually, the Angles and the Saxons united to become the Anglo-Saxons, with the separate dialects combining into Old English. This was the earliest recorded form of the English Language. As the Anglo-Saxons predominantly resided in the north-east, traces of Old English are still ...
The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is the most comprehensive dictionary of English dialects ever published, compiled by the Yorkshire dialectologist Joseph Wright (1855–1930), with strong support by a team and his wife Elizabeth Mary Wright (1863–1958).
Published in 1911, W. W. Skeat's English Dialects from the Eighth Century to the Present Day offers a sketch of the beginnings of dialects in England, the elements of Scandinavian and French influence on them, and their gradual development over a period of twelve hundred years.
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This paper presents the results of a British English dialect survey with data taken from a study spanning seven years and comprising 14,438 respondents and thirty-seven linguistic variables, demonstrating the status of regional dialect variation in Great Britain today. Our study follows a long line of tradition by surveying respondents on their ...
Dec 5, 2019 · On a more formal level, Trudgill’s study was reported by Ossi Ihalainen in The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 5, where you can read more about the study. Or go straight to the source, which in this case is The dialects of England by Peter Trudgill (1990). I’ve also had a brief look at Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (2013) Grammatical ...
