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- DictionaryDi·a·lect/ˈdīəˌlek(t)/
noun
- 1. a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group: "this novel is written in the dialect of Trinidad"
1 day ago · Italian (italiano, Italian: [itaˈljaːno] ⓘ, or lingua italiana, Italian: [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
1 day ago · Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two different targets: that is, the tongue (and/or other parts of the speech apparatus) moves during the pronunciation of the vowel. In most varieties of English, the phrase "no highway cowboy" ( / noʊ ˈhaɪweɪ ˈkaʊbɔɪ /) has five distinct diphthongs, one in every syllable .
- ⟨hai̯ kau̯⟩
- ⟨haj kaw⟩
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2 hours ago · I can now understand laments of Oscar Wilde that 'England and America were two countries separated by a common language'. I thought the divide was the Atlantic.As I settled down to the new environment at the university, there was much to learn beyond the academic programme. It began with the word 'sir' that we so freely use to address superiors.
1 day ago · In U.S. Navy slang, also called a "flat top" or a "bird farm". air draft air draught maximum vertical extent of any part of the vessel above the water surface. Clearance required for passing under a bridge. aka Structural section of a vessel that joins the hulls of a multihulled vessel together. alee 1. On the lee side of a ship. 2. To leeward.
1 day ago · Word formation In Chinese, the difference between words and Chinese characters is often not clear [b], this is one of the reasons the Chinese script does not use spaces to separate words. A string of characters can be translated as a single English word, but these characters have some kind of independence. For example, tiàowǔ (跳舞 ; 'jump-dance'), meaning 'to dance', can be used as a ...
