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5 days ago · A dialect is the common way in which people within a certain group use language. The language may be unique to people of a particular area, of a particular ethnic group, or to people at different socioeconomic positions. Dialect includes vocabulary, the way in which words are pronounced, and the rhythm and speed with which language is used.
5 days ago · One of the most famous and fun dialects in the UK is Cockney English. This includes something called Cockney rhyming slang. For example, “dog and bone” means “phone”. “Phone” and “bone” rhyme (have a similar sound). “Loaf” means “head” because “loaf of bread” rhymes with “head”.
4 days ago · Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect [1] [2] or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United States, though concentrated increasingly in more rural areas, and spoken primarily by White Southerners. [3] .
5 days ago · Cockney as a dialect is most notable for its argot, or coded language, which was born out of ingenious rhyming slang. There are as many as 150 terms that are recognized instantly by any rhyming slang user. For example, the phrase use your loaf—meaning “use your head”—is derived from the rhyming phrase loaf of bread. That phrase is just ...
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3 days ago · AAVE shares most of its lexicon with other varieties of English, particularly that of informal and Southern dialects; for example, the relatively recent use of y'all. As statistically shown by Algeo (1991: 3-14), the main sources for new words are combining, shifting, shortening, blending, borrowing, and creating.
1 day ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
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5 days ago · Linguistically, there are two main dialect groups in modern Catalan: the western dialects, including West Catalan and Valencian; and the eastern group, including East Catalan, Balearic, and Roussillonnais and the dialect spoken in Alghero, where Catalan was introduced in the 14th century.
