Non-rhotic English-speakers, such as speakers of many British dialects and African American Vernacular English, pronounce " nigger " and " nigga " identically, as their accents do not distinguish between these two words.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

* 1650 – Colonel George Monck of the English Army forms Monck's Regiment of Foot, which will later become the Coldstream Guards.

Written forms of British and American English as found in newspapers and textbooks vary little in their essential features, with only occasional noticeable differences in comparable media ( comparing American newspapers with British newspapers, for example ).

The spoken forms of British English vary considerably, reflecting a long history of dialect development amid isolated populations.

An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.

For instance member nations of the Commonwealth where English is not spoken natively, such as India, often closely follow British English forms, while many American English usages are followed in other countries which have been historically influenced by the United States, such as the Philippines.

King Alfred's ( Alfred the Great ) translation of Orosius ' history of the world uses Angelcynn (- kin ) to describe England and the English people ; Bede used Angelfolc (- folk ); there are also such forms as Engel, Englan ( the people ), Englaland, and Englisc, all showing i-mutation.

In English, the p of the Greek-pt-consonant cluster is typically silent at the beginning of a word ( e. g. pterodactyl, Ptolemy ), but articulated when used in combining forms preceded by a vowel, as in helicopter or the orders of insects: diptera, lepidoptera, etc.

The Catholic Encyclopaedia make the point that the oath and the penalties were so severe that it stopped the efforts of the Gallicanizing party among the English Catholics, who had been ready to offer forms of submission similar to the old oath of Allegiance, which was condemned anew about this time by Pope Innocent X.

( The answering forms in Old English would have been beallu ,-a ,-e -- compare bealluc, ballock.

* British English, the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom

British English ( or BrEn, BrE, BE, en-UK or en-GB )< ref > is the language code for British English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref > is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere.

The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".

Avant-garde choreographers, seeking new forms of continuity for their new vocabulary of movements, have turned to similar approaches.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

The pamphlets are about law, the corporation, forms of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of liberty, the various lethargies which overtake our major institutions, the gap between traditional social ideals and the working mechanisms that have been set in motion for their realization.

Lawrence Ferlenghetti and Bruce Lippincott have concentrated on writing a new poetry for reading with jazz that is very closely related to both the musical forms of jazz, and the vocabulary of the musician.

Here he would have free expression because the material could be moved to distort forms.

Consequently there have developed several forms of grants-in-aid and shared taxes, as well as the unrestricted grant to local governments for general purposes whose adoption accompanied the introduction of a sales tax at the state level.

Some of the oldest, most persistent, and most cohesive forms of social groupings have grown out of religion.

Text reading is terminated when a pre-determined number of forms have been stored in the text-form list.

If each text form is marked when matched with a dictionary form, the text forms not contained in the dictionary can be identified when all dictionary forms have been read.

) When the complete file has been read, the grammatical descriptions for all text forms found in the dictionary have been stored in the W-region ; ;

and More was far too well read not to have come across it in one or several of the forms thus given it.

While patent suits are still among the most complex and expensive forms of litigation, these rules have saved litigants uncounted sums of money.

Among Christian groups, the Mennonites have commonly been aware more than others of the fact that the nature of divine charity raises decisively the question of the Christian use of all forms of pressure.

Tylor in particular laid the groundwork for theories of cultural diffusionism, stating that there are three ways that different groups can have similar cultural forms or technologies: " independent invention, inheritance from ancestors in a distant region, transmission from one race to another.

There have also been found very old Nepōhualtzintzin attributed to the Olmeca culture, and even some bracelets of Mayan origin, as well as a diversity of forms and materials in other cultures.

While much of the construction in these sites conforms to common Pueblo architectural forms, including Kivas, towers, and pit-houses, the space constrictions of these alcoves necessitated what seems to have been a far denser concentration of their populations.

Throughout history, forms of art have gone through periodic abrupt changes called artistic revolutions.

For substances which have two ( or more ) stable crystalline forms, such as diamond and graphite for carbon, there is a kind of " chemical degeneracy ".

Allegory has been used widely in ancient sacred texts of Hinduism and all the religions that have sprouted off it ; and throughout the history of art in all forms of artwork.

Limited possibilities have been explored by artists as an outlet to artistic expression, and has been cultivated to become a positive style and tradition, emphasizing the decorative function of art, or its religious functions via non-representational forms such as Geometric patterns, floral patterns, and arabesques.

For example, the parent function y = 1 / x has a horizontal and a vertical asymptote, and occupies the first and third quadrant, and all of its transformed forms have one horizontal and vertical asymptote, and occupies either the 1st and 3rd or 2nd and 4th quadrant.

Liturgical rites of the Catholic Church, both Western and Eastern, other than the Roman, have a variety of other forms for celebrating the sacrament.

Various forms of biographic and counselling work have been developed on the basis of anthroposophy.

Again there was a lengthened version of the Carlton ( and Omega ), this time known in both Opel and Vauxhall forms by the same name: Senator.

* For vowels as an independent syllable ( in writing, unattached to a consonant ), either at the beginning of a word or ( in Hindi ) after another vowel, there are full-letter forms.

Even cases considered " regular ", with the final-s, are not so simple ; the-s in dogs is not pronounced the same way as the-s in cats, and in a plural like dishes, an " extra " vowel appears before the-s. These cases, where the same distinction is effected by alternative forms of a " word ", are called allomorphy.

Some Newfoundland English differs from General Canadian English in vowel pronunciation ( e. g., in much of Newfoundland, the words fear and fair are homophones ), in morphology and syntax ( e. g., in Newfoundland the word bes is sometimes used in place of the normally conjugated forms of to be to describe continual actions or states of being, as in that rock usually bes under water instead of that rock is usually under water, but normal conjugation of to be is used in all other cases ; bes is likely a carryover of British Somerset usage with Irish grammar ) or Cornish, and in preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers ( e. g., in Newfoundland that play was right boring and that play was some boring both mean " that play was very boring ").

It can be morpheme-specific, as in the loss of the vowel in the enclitic forms of English is, with subsequent change of to adjacent to a voiceless consonant Frank's not here.

There is a conflict between the phonetic definition of " vowel " ( a sound produced with no constriction in the vocal tract ) and the phonological definition ( a sound that forms the peak of a syllable ).

While in standard Russian it represents, in many Ukrainian dialects it denotes ( following a vowel and preceding a consonant ( cluster ), either within a word or at a word boundary, it denotes the allophone, and like the off-glide of in the English words " flow " and " cow ", it forms a diphthong with the preceding vowel ).

* Each vowel has two forms, an independent form when not part of a consonant, and a dependent form, when attached to a consonant.

However, most speakers actually pronounce ñ and ll as and, respectively, with a semivowel which forms a diphthong with the preceding vowel ( but reduced to, after ), not as the palatal consonants of Portuguese and Spanish.

; Univocalism: A poem using only one vowel, although the vowel may be used in any of its aural forms.

It has forty-four consonants (, phayanchaná ), fifteen vowel symbols (, sàrà ) that combine into at least twenty-eight vowel forms, and four tone marks (, wannayúk or wannayút ).

The morpheme may exist in four different forms, depending on the preceding consonant and vowel.

Now, in addition to the commonplace roots of consonant + vowel + consonant structure there are also well-attested roots like * dhē-" put, place " and * dō-" give " ( mentioned above ): these end in a vowel, which is always long in the categories where roots like * sed-have full grades ; and in those forms where zero grade would be expected, if before an affix beginning with a consonant, we find a short vowel, reconstructed as * ə, or schwa ( more formally, schwa primum indogermanicum ).

When it came to vowel forms, Keats incorporated a pattern of alternating historically " short " and " long " vowel sounds in his ode.

The letter ŭ is called non-syllabic u ( romanised: u nieskładovaje ) in Belarusian because it resembles the vowel u but forms no syllables.

) Most of the syllables with the vowel " i " have a shape like the " a " series, except that the angle between the short tick and the long line is approximately 45 ° rather than 90 °; there are a few " i " forms that do not fit the pattern ( such as " is " and " it ") because they are especially common, and some of the forms that might be expected to represent " i " plus a consonant have been turned to other purposes, such as the prefix " circum -.

All forms of nouns end with a vowel and are taken from the ablative case, but as this was not listed in most Latin dictionaries, he gave the rule for its derivation from the genitive case.

This is supported by frequent examples of the same word spelled with different vowel markings in the dictionary and Delaporte's Nauruan translation of the Bible, including Delaporte's New Testament, which shows only two vowel forms, one marked ( with a tilde "< nowiki >~</ nowiki >"), and one unmarked.