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    What Are Dialects

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    are dialects? Dialect is a language spoken by a dialects group of people. Dialects are different from the standard language. They have different phonology, grammar, and vocabulary. How do dialects form? Dialects tend to evolve based on geographical features. Dialects are usually formed in isolated places where a language is stranded within a certain group of people for a long period. This is why people from highlands, basins, and island possess a stronger dialect. Creation of dialects is just

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    Southern Dialect

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    I am from Salisbury, MD, so I never thought I had a different dialect from the rest of Maryland until I came to Towson. My friends tease me at times because I “sound so Southern.” Due to the fact that some of my family is from Alabama, I have picked up on a few of those southern traits. My father tends to say “warsh” instead of “wash,” and a lot of my family members tend to leave out the “g” in words that end with “ing.” Instead of asking, “Are you guys going to the store?” I would ask, “Are y’all

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    English Dialect Analysis

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    Map Shows How Americans Speak 24 Different English Dialects by Max Nisen from Business Insider. Nisen says that America speaks one language but there is distinctive sayings that are baffling to most people from other parts of the country. Nisen also gives a map that was from Long Island University’s Robert Delaney which was displayed by Reid Wilson at The Washington Post. The map shows the division of twenty-four different distinctive dialects; which is a lot more complicated. The article also

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    Dialects of OE Four main dialects were spoken in Anglo-Saxon England: Kentish The speech of the Jutes that was mainly used in present-day Kent. Few works written in this dialect remain. West Saxon It was spoken in the region south of the Thames (southern and southwestern England). This area was mainly settled by West Saxons, so this dialect soon became known as Wessex. Most of the OE corpus is written in this dialect and the reason for this is the fact that this kingdom became the leading political

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    Key issue 3 Understanding the ways dialect vary. Many people have wondered why, if we are in one country, why do a lot of people sound different. Each region has its own language by way of spelling, vocabulary, and pronounciation. This is called dialect. THe sub division of a dialect is called subdialect. English Dialects Serval hundred years ago, English speakers migrated and settled in North America which stated the development of dialects of the English language. Because of its widespread distribution

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    African American Dialect

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    vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from Standard English (SE) than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.” (Pullum, 39) AAE is a precious product of a people who mastered a language under the inhumane conditions of slavery. African American English is in fact a form of Standard English, and can be considered as the common dialect of African Americans. The historical phonological patterns of the dialect highlight the continuous

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    States has many different dialects that are spoken in different areas of the country. The meaning of certain words in the Eastern side of the country have different meanings on the Southerner side of the country. The results of different dialects from different side of the country are all very unique. This reflects how people in communities within different regions have develop their own unique dialect and in many cases have travel far to other regions of the country. Dialect defines where an individual

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    hundreds of dialects in America and they are continuing to grow, in regions such as the north, the south, and the west. Dialects in these regions have been around for years and are relentlessly flourishing. For example, many residents in Ohio speak the Appalachia dialect. (Do You Speak American? Down south, 2005). In this region the Appalachian dialect is becoming a trend and is spreading rapidly. (Do You Speak American? Down south, 2005). In other regions like the west, there are dialects that have

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    All through the current years, the kind of the dialect utilized as a part of music have been enormously moved and it is still ceaselessly evolving. As of this day, the utilization of revolting dialect in popular music is more mainstream than any other time in recent memory. Practically every craftsman who created popular music utilizes profane dialect in their music. The utilization of some revolting expressions, for example, "fuck" have turned out to be famous in popular music and accordingly, the

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    Introduction The country of America consists of many dialects. This essay will, specifically, be focusing on the dialect of the Pacific Northwest. It mainly includes the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Other states such as Montana and Wyoming could be arguable as being part of the Pacific Northwest as well. The Standard American English dialect (SAE) is, in many ways, similar to the Pacific Northwest dialect as well as different in other ways. The following essay will go into detail

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