are there any English dialects?
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Well for English English there is The Queen's English, Cockney, Glaswegian Scottish, Australian....just to name a few.
For American English, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Southern are a few offhand. I don't know if ebonics counts...you'd have to ask a real dialect expert
For American English, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Southern are a few offhand. I don't know if ebonics counts...you'd have to ask a real dialect expert
You bet there are English dialogs. I tell New Yorkers that here, in California, they grant you nativehood after five years if you promise not to put a W in cwawfee, chwawcolate, or dwawg, and there is no hard G in Lwawng GIsland.
I don't know what the technical criteria is, but whether I want to learn a southern drawl or cockney, I call the same dialect coach, and he teaches me a dialect.
Yes there are many dialects. Northern England and South West England have different words, just as one example, can't think of words, but someone from Bolton moved down to the SW and some of the stuff he said made no sense.
Butties is one words that's kinda region specific.
Butties is one words that's kinda region specific.
There are hundreds of dialects in England alone, up until this generation when people started moving around the country more some people could tell which village you were from simply by your accent.
oh those crazy newfs.Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: MrsSkoorb
In Canada, specifially Newfoundland, we have Newfineze!
Yeah, I worked with a guy from up there (what possessed him to move from way up there to Mississippi, I'll never know). Nice guy, but hard as hell to understand.
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well whats the difference between an accent and a dialect? Just because you use the word pop instead of soda and say y'all instead of you all does that mean you speak another dialect?
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di·a·lect ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-lkt)
n.
A regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists: Cockney is a dialect of English.
A variety of language that with other varieties constitutes a single language of which no single variety is standard: the dialects of Ancient Greek.
The language peculiar to the members of a group, especially in an occupation; jargon: the dialect of science.
The manner or style of expressing oneself in language or the arts.
A language considered as part of a larger family of languages or a linguistic branch. Not in scientific use: Spanish and French are Romance dialects.
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[French dialecte, from Old French, from Latin dialectus, form of speech, from Greek dialektos, speech, from dialegesthai, to discourse, use a dialect : dia-, between, over; see dia- + legesthai, middle voice of legein, to speak; see leg- in Indo-European Roots.]
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dia·lectal adj.
dia·lectal·ly adv.
Synonyms: dialect, vernacular, jargon, cant, 2argot, lingo, patois
These nouns denote forms of language that vary from the standard. Dialect usually applies to the vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation characteristic of specific geographic localities or social classes. The vernacular is the informal everyday language spoken by a people. Jargon is specialized language understood only by a particular group, as one sharing an occupation or interest. Cant now usually refers to the specialized vocabulary of a group or trade and is often marked by the use of stock phrases. Argot applies especially to the language of the underworld. Lingo is often applied to language that is unfamiliar or difficult to understand. Patois is sometimes used as a synonym for jargon or cant, but it can also refer to a regional dialect that has no literary tradition.
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dialect
\Di"a*lect\, n. [F. dialecte, L. dialectus, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to converse, discourse. See Dialogue.] 1. Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect. Bunyan. The universal dialect of the world. --South.
2. The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.
In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a standard English language. --Earle.
[Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect. --Prescott.
Syn: Language; idiom; tongue; speech; phraseology. See Language, and Idiom.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
dialect
n : the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent" [syn: idiom, accent]
I had some japanese girls frrom Atlanta tell me that I had a very distinct accent (Canadian from Vancouver BC).
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oh those crazy newfs.Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: MrsSkoorb
In Canada, specifially Newfoundland, we have Newfineze!
Yeah, I worked with a guy from up there (what possessed him to move from way up there to Mississippi, I'll never know). Nice guy, but hard as hell to understand.
I 'llow
Your link doesn't explain the difference between an accent and a dialect, if there is one at all.
Originally posted by: Harvey
You bet there are English dialogs. I tell New Yorkers that here, in California, they grant you nativehood after five years if you promise not to put a W in cwawfee, chwawcolate, or dwawg, and there is no hard G in Lwawng GIsland.
Hahahh I went to Rhode Island for a week for vacation and I came back wondering where I could find a Dunkin' Dwonuts and get myself an iced cwawfee for a dwollah.
Some of us speak Spanglish, which includes an accent and a different dialect.
Like boogers = moco and we say our kids have to go caca, not potty. Stuff like that...
Like boogers = moco and we say our kids have to go caca, not potty. Stuff like that...
Yeah Ebonics is a dialect. In my Lingustics class we read the correct Ebonics. What you hear in rap music and what not, that is just slang.
Every country where English is spoken (natively or otherwise) they all have a dialect. "Indian English" is also a dialect. Indians (from india) tend to make everything present continous tense (I am going to class, I am meeting my friend. We are talking about going to graduate school). There is this dialect down in the Caribean, which is so different from the English we here in the US speak, that it doesn't even sound like English. Maybe if I am not mistaken, Creole is also considered a dialect of English.
Every country where English is spoken (natively or otherwise) they all have a dialect. "Indian English" is also a dialect. Indians (from india) tend to make everything present continous tense (I am going to class, I am meeting my friend. We are talking about going to graduate school). There is this dialect down in the Caribean, which is so different from the English we here in the US speak, that it doesn't even sound like English. Maybe if I am not mistaken, Creole is also considered a dialect of English.
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Technically, to be a Cockney, you have to be born within earshot of the churchbells at St. Mary-le-Bow in London, but it's really come to mean just about any working-class Londoner. Heavy accent, sometimes hard to understand without subtitles, and lots of rhyming slang.
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