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"The Wife of His Youth" follows Mr. Ryder, a biracial man who was born and reared free before the Civil War. He heads the "Blue Veins Society", a social organization for colored people in a northern town; the membership consists of people with a high proportion of European ancestry, who look more white than black.
The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is the most comprehensive dictionary of English dialects ever published, compiled by the Yorkshire dialectologist Joseph Wright (1855–1930), with strong support by a team and his wife Elizabeth Mary Wright (1863–1958). [1]
[93] The edition included an extensive glossary of Old English terms. [93] His third edition was published in 1936, with the last version in his lifetime being a revised reprint in 1950. [94] Klaeber's text was re-presented with new introductory material, notes, and glosses, in a fourth edition in 2008. [95]
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Scots-Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, Polish, [3] Ukrainian [4] and Croatian [5] immigrants to the area all provided certain loanwords to the dialect (see "Vocabulary" below). Many of the sounds and words found in the dialect are popularly thought to be unique to Pittsburgh, but that is a misconception since the dialect resides throughout the greater part of western Pennsylvania and the surrounding ...
In 2004, Trudgill used the data to trace the origins of New Zealand English, using it as an indication for the language spoken at the time that New Zealand was colonised by British settlers. [ 21 ] Gerald Knowles saw A.J. Ellis's work as the first acknowledgement of a Scouse dialect, distinct from the rest of Lancashire, although A.J. Ellis ...
Multiethnolects appear to be less homogeneous than either dialects or sociolects and are assumed to be context-bound and transient, to the extent that they are ‘youth languages'. [3] Aasheim (1995) first coined the term kebabnorsk, referring to the Norwegian multiethnolect spoken primarily by immigrant youth in neighborhoods of eastern Oslo.
Ugandan English, also colloquially referred to as Uglish (/ ˈ j uː ɡ l ɪ ʃ / YOO-glish), is the variety of English spoken in Uganda. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Aside from Uglish (first recorded in 2012), other colloquial portmanteau words are Uganglish (recorded from 2006) and Ugandlish (2010).