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The Irish accent is, as one would expect, combined with slight inflections from the French.
aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.
It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.
A traditional drink of Argentina is an infusion called mate ( in Spanish, mate, with the accent on the first syllable ).
Recently, media has begun to casually call them the " Sawx ", reflecting how the word is pronounced with a New England accent.
" O " is not only short for " Oriole ", but the vowel is also a stand-out aspect of the Baltimorean accent.
Bandanese Malay is famous in the region for its unique, lilting accent, but it also has a number of locally identifying words in its lexicon, many of them borrowings or loanwords from Dutch.
In modern day Italian, this term designates a bordello ( also called " casa chiusa ", literally " closed house "), while the gambling house is spelled casinò with an accent.
Where a distinction can be made only in terms of pronunciation, the term accent is appropriate, not dialect.
Some have theorized it emerged from the overwhelming influence of Low German in medieval times, having flattened the originally Nordic melodic accent, but stød is absent in most southern Danish dialects where Low German impact would have been the greatest.
In Spanish, the grapheme ñ is considered a new letter different from n and collated between n and o, as it denotes a different sound from that of a plain n. But the accented vowels á, é, í, ó, ú are not separated from the unaccented vowels a, e, i, o, u, as the acute accent in Spanish only modifies stress within the word or denotes a distinction between homonyms, and does not modify the sound of a letter.
;* In Bulgarian the possessive pronoun ѝ ( ì, " her ") is spelled with a grave accent in order to distinguish it from the conjunction и ( i, " and ").
:* The acute accent " ́" above any vowel in Cyrillic alphabets is used in dictionaries, books for children and foreign learners to indicate the word stress, it also can be used for disambiguation of similarly spelled words with different lexical stresses.
The acute accent is used to add emphasis in the same way as underlining or writing in bold or italics in English, for example Dit is jóú boek ( It is your book ).
The grave accent is used to distinguish between words that are different only in placement of the stress, for example appel ( apple ) and appèl ( appeal ) and in a few cases where it makes no difference to the pronunciation but distinguishes between homophones.
The acute and the grave accent indicate stress and vowel height, the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization, the diaeresis mark indicates either a hiatus, or that the letter u is pronounced when the graphemes gü, qü are followed by e or i, the interpunct (·) distinguishes the different values of ll / l · l.
* Galician vowels can bear an acute accent ( á, é, í, ó, ú ) to indicate stress or difference between two otherwise same written words ( é, '( he / she ) is ' vs. e, ' and '), but trema is only used with ï and ü to show diaeresis in pronunciation.
* Irish uses acute accent to indicate that the vowel is long.
Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

accent and on
* Vietnamese uses the acute accent ( dấu sắc ), the grave accent ( dấu huyền ), the tilde ( dấu ngã ), the dot below ( dấu nặng ) and the hook above ( dấu hỏi ) on vowels as tone indicators.
* Keyboard Help — Learn how to create world language accent marks and other diacriticals on a computer
* Satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer's 1953 song " Lobachevsky " was based on a number that Kaye had done, about the Russian director Constantin Stanislavski, again with the affected Russian accent.
Upon returning from England, Hubble transformed himself from a middle-class mid-westerner into an affected faux-English dandy, took on a British accent, smoked a pipe, and sometimes wore knickers and a beret while observing at the big telescopes in California.
# peteneras and guajiras: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Both palos start with the strong accent on 12.
Witness his monographs on the vowel system in th Teutonic languages ( 1836 ), on the Celtic languages ( 1839 ), on the Old Prussian ( 1853 ) and Albanian languages ( Über das Albanesische in seinen verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen, Vienna, 1854 ), on the accent in Sanskrit and Greek ( 1854 ), on the relationship of the Malayo-Polynesian with the Indo-European languages ( 1840 ), and on the Caucasian languages ( 1846 ).
* Glaucus of Samos, who wrote on Greek accent and prosody
These dialects also border on having non-tonal or pitch accent qualities.
The away uniforms are still basically black pants and numbers on a white jersey, but they now have a little more teal overall ; it is the only accent color.
Technically, both Pǔtōng ​ huà ​ and Guó ​ yǔ base their phonology on the Beijing accent, though Pǔtōng ​ huà ​ also takes some elements from other sources.
Here are some examples of puns that depend on being pronounced in a particular accent:
These combinations are designed to be easy to remember, as the circumflex accent ( e. g. â ) is similar to a caret (^), printed above the 6 key ; the diaeresis ( e. g. ö ) is similar to the double-quote (") above 2 on the UK keyboard ; the tilde (~) is printed on the same key as the #.
All reels have the same structure, consisting largely of quaver ( eighth note ) movement with an accent on the first and third beats of the bar.
Emphasis was placed on the Muslim principles of social progress, equality and justice, which the government argued formed the core of scientific socialism and its own accent on self-sufficiency, public participation and popular control, as well as direct ownership of the means of production.
Human characters in both The Sontaran Experiment and The Sontaran Stratagem comment on how closely individual Sontarans resemble one another ; however, it should be noted that their height, skin tone, facial features, vocal timbre and accent, hair, spacing of teeth and even number of fingers have varied from story to story, and sometimes within stories.

accent and rather
It can also be used to " break up " a diphthong as in tío ( pronounced, rather than as it would be without the accent ).
RP is an accent ( a form of pronunciation ) and a register, rather than a dialect ( a form of vocabulary and grammar as well as pronunciation ).
It is common in parts of Britain to regard it as a south-eastern English accent rather than a non-regional one and as a symbol of the south-east's political power in Britain.
A Latino North Hollywood resident who speaks with a thick Cuban American accent, and often refers to himself in the third person, insisting on the English pronunciation of his name rather than the Spanish.
The accent of English spoken in Hong Kong follows mainly British, with rather strong influence from Cantonese on the pronunciations of a few consonants and vowels, and sentence grammar and structure.
Since then, the Cockney accent has been more accepted as an alternative form of the English Language rather than an ' inferior ' one ; in the 1950s the only accent to be heard on the BBC ( except in entertainment programmes such as Sooty ) was RP, whereas nowadays many different accents, including Cockney or ones heavily influenced by it, can be heard on the BBC.
It maintains a steady rhythmic pattern, sometimes called a ride pattern, rather than the accent of a crash.
This proved paradoxical, as Caine was to become notable for using a regional accent, rather than the Received Pronunciation hitherto considered proper for film actors.
The album consisted of famous love songs sung ( or rather spoken ) with Boyer's distinctive deep voice and French accent.
Area residents put the accent on the first syllable of Berlin, rather than on the second.
A Broadway revival in the 1990s starring Matthew Broderick, essaying an Irish accent ( as did Montgomery ), rather than a Welsh one, performed respectably at the box office.
The Death Coach, or cóiste bodhar ( pronounced " Coashta-Bower " in the film ), acquired its name from a misunderstanding-' bodhar ' being the Irish word for ' deaf ' rather than ' death ', the misunderstanding presumably arose from differences of accent.
The distinctive, rather sinister accent which Pleasence employed in this and other films may be credited to the elocution lessons that he had as a child.
* Malaysian English employs a broad A accent, as such words like cab and tab appear with rather than.
" However, this statement could have been a ruse on Chico's part to explain his accent and trick Dumont, as he was portraying Groucho rather than himself.
The accent is omitted in all-uppercase words but it is kept as part of an uppercase initial ( written before the letter rather than above it ).
The people of the island speak with a Kyoto accent even now, rather than a Kyūshū or Kagoshima accent, despite its proximity to Kyūshū.
American advertisements have most frequently featured a narrator with a British accent and other European themes, presenting the pastry as an elegant, sophisticated " adult " sweet that would appeal to the upper classes, rather than as a kiddie lunchbox snack.
He was admitted as a commoner on 15 June 1723, and matriculated on 18 June ; the records say that he came from Bath rather than Perth, because the person recording the names of the new students was unable to understand his Scottish accent.
On many songs Albini programmed it to accent the first and third beats of the bar, rather than the second and fourth beats typically accented in rock music.
The entire statement was written " in rather crude calligraphy " on a long banner placed near the statue, and was read in its entirety by a female student " with a good Mandarin accent " from the Broadcasting Academy.
Some believe that the Germans recognized him as an agent by virtue of his rather poor French accent.

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