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English and Dialect
The Dialect Test was designed by Joseph Wright to compare different English dialects with each other.
Anyone using RP will typically speak Standard English although the reverse is not necessarily true ( e. g. the standard language may be pronounced with a regional accent, such as a Scottish or Yorkshire Accent ; but it is very unlikely that someone speaking RP would use it to speak the Scots or the Yorkshire Dialect ).
Early Swiss German rappers started rapping in English, but after the bilingual track " Murder by Dialect " by P-27 featuring Black Tiger, rappers switched to their native Swiss German dialects.
* Dialect Poems from the English regions
That the use of " Scots " is the modern preferred use in all levels of society in Scotland is not in doubt, but occasional use of " Scotch " in varieties of the Scots language continues with terms such as Scotch and English ( a game ), Scotch fiddle ( Itchiness ), Scotch mile and ell ( measures ) and many other examples ( see the Scots Dialect Dictionary compiled by Alexander Warrack M. A.
* Speech by Amelia Earhart from the collection American English Dialect Recordings, Library of Congress
" Results are discussed in two of her published articles / chapters: “ The Morphology of Newton County, Arkansas: An Exercise in Studying Ozark Dialect ,” Mid – South Folklore 3 ( 1975 ), 115 – 125, and “ Southern Mountain English ” Chapter 5 of The Workings of Language, ed.
' In 1883 appeared ' English Dialect Words of the Eighteenth Century as shown in the.
Dictionary of N. Bailey ', with an introduction by W. E. A. Axon ( English Dialect Society ), giving biographical and bibliographical details.
The first published edition was in Early English Alliterative Poems in the West Midland Dialect of the fourteenth century, printed by the Early English Text Society.
Joseph Wright, author of the English Dialect Dictionary and one of the earliest users of phonetic notation, was born in nearby Thackley but grew up in Windhill ( now east Shipley ).
Bukhara Dialect " ( a monograph ), Tbilisi, 1956, 343 pp. ( in Russian, English summary )
Dialect differences consist mainly of substrata influences in the various areas where the language is spoken-or, rather, by the language of the ethnic groups that use the language-as well as a certain amount of superstrata influence from English.
Wright ’ s English Dialect Dictionary ( 1904 ) lists as variants rame, ramp, ramps, rams, ramsden, ramsey, ramsh, ramsies, ramsy, rommy, and roms, mostly from northern England and Scotland.
In part V of his work On early English pronunciation, he applied the Dialect Test across Britain, and distinguished forty-two different dialects in England and the Scottish Lowlands.
From 2000-2005, for instance, The Dialect Survey queried North American English speakers ' usage of a variety of linguistic items, including vocabulary items that vary by region.
Stray, Christopher ), Winchester Notions: The English Dialect of Winchester College: London 1998, ISBN 0-485-11525-5 ( Hardback ); London, 1999 ISBN 0-485-12138-7 ( paperback )
The first published edition was in Early English Alliterative Poems in the West Midland Dialect of the fourteenth century, printed by the Early English Text Society.
Chicano English: An Ethnic Contact Dialect.
* Pennsylvania Dutch, a Dialect of South German with an Infusion of English ( 1872 )
The term larrikin was used to refer to " a mischievous or frolicsome youth ", as reported in the Supplement, English Dialect Dictionary, editor J. Wright, 1898 – 1905.

English and Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.
* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term " artist ":
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage says, " The list contains ( in approximate historical order from 1789 to 1939 ) such terms as Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, United Stater.
" Est vir qui adest ", explained below, was cited as the example in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.
According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >
" " toxophilite, n ." Oxford English Dictionary.
Earlier version first published in New English Dictionary, 1913 .</ ref >
* Ansible from the Oxford English Dictionary
* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
* The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin ( 1992 ), hardcover, 2140 pages, ISBN 0-395-44895-6
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.
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 ".
Others, such as the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, define it as the " English language as it spoken and written in England.
Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Young currently supports Creative Commons, the Public Knowledge Project, the Dictionary of Old English, the Internet Archive, ibiblio, the NCSU eGames, and the Bald Head Island Conservancy, among others.
The Oxford English Dictionary, finding examples going back to 1961, defines the adjective born-again as:
* American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin Company ( 2006 ).

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