Communities that use a particular dialect or accent can range in size; some dialects include millions of people, and others only a hundred (and some probably even fewer!). For example,North American Englishrefers to the dialect of English used in much of the U.S. and Canada by hundreds of...
He has a strong German accent Vernacular The language of a people or a national language. A vernacular of the United States is English. Dialect A form of a language with grammatical differences. Teachers had to learn the local dialect to communicate effectively. Vernacular Everyday speech or dia...
What Is a Dialect? In terms of its dictionary definition, a dialect is'a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group. ' This implies that we can view a language in the role of parent, with a range of dialects stemming from it. What can dialect...
Many locals, due to dialect and local accent, pronounce 我 as ǒu, and people began using 偶 as a substitute for 我 in writing. However, 偶 is reserved for casual conversations. If you look up the dictionary, my guess is that you won’t find “I” as a definition for 偶. Not yet...
So what’s going on here? Well, confession time: my girlfriend and I were both trained as actors, and let’s face it, actors aren’t great examples of “normal” dialect behavior. But I have read that the cot-caught merger is spreading like wildfire. Why?
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I’m not sure what Schmidt is getting at here, but “absolutely guaranteed” was clearly used in government documentsspanningthe 19th Century. But even if it weren’t, it would be less an “anachronism” than a run-of-the-mill noun phrase. ...