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China Grove is a town in Bexar County, Texas, United States, located on the far east side of San Antonio. The population was 1,141 at the 2020 census . It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area .
West Midlands English, a dialect spoken in the United Kingdom, spoken in the western area of the English Midlands. Midland American English, a dialect spoken in the United States, spoken in parts of the Midwest, Pennsylvania, and southern New Jersey, and sometimes included, are the Appalachian dialects of West Virginia to Georgia.
The Atlas of North American English. Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-016746-8. Murray, T. E.; Simon, B. L. (2006), "What is dialect? Revisiting the Midland", Language variation and change in the American Midland: A new look at 'Heartland' English, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, ISBN 9027248966
The Literacy Coalition and the Midland County Public Library will begin to offer English as a Second Language classes starting March 4 at the Downtown Municipal Library, 301 W Missouri Ave., Midland.
An English language institute (ELIs) or English language centre (ELCs) is a department within a college or university in English-speaking countries that aims to develop students' English language skills for a variety of purposes. In countries like New Zealand, ELCs accounted for one-fifth of the $1.1 billion (NZ) in revenue (2001).
China Grove was a station on the Columbia Tap Railroad from sometime before 1877, until the town of Custer was established in 1892. There were several scattered dwellings in the community in 1974. The only remnants of the plantation are several hedges of the Cherokee rose in 1991 [2] and a cemetery. [3]
When fire destroyed the China Grove depot in 1906, the railroad rebuilt in the larger Nashland area, but retained the established name "China" as the name of the depot. The Nashland post office changed its name to China shortly afterward. It was only in 1971 that the (now-merged) community voted to incorporate as the city of China, Texas. [4]
Midland American English's "exact regional boundaries and defining features are somewhat debated among linguists due to its pronunciation undergoing rapid changes since the mid-twentieth century." Here is the version of the sentence that I think gives a fuller picture and yet, obviously, it makes for a clumsy and unwieldy sentence: