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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.
Language portal; This category contains both accents and dialects specific to groups of speakers of the English language. General pronunciation issues that are not specific to a single dialect are categorized under the English phonology category.
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]
Cockney is a dialect of the English language, mainly spoken in London and its environs, particularly by Londoners with working-class and lower-middle-class roots. The term Cockney is also used as a demonym for a person from the East End, [1] [2] [3] or, traditionally, born within earshot of Bow Bells. [4] [5] [6]
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Max Weinreich (Yiddish: מאַקס ווײַנרײַך [2] Maks Vaynraych; Russian: Мейер Лазаревич Вайнрайх, Meyer Lazarevich Vaynraykh; 22 April 1894 – 29 January 1969) was a Russian-American-Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics [3] and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who, a sociolinguistic innovator, edited the Modern Yiddish ...
Joseph Wright wrote in the English Dialect Dictionary that this came from a shortening of the older word while-ever. [66] The word self may become sen, e.g. yourself becomes thy sen, tha sen. [67] Similar to other English dialects, using the word them to mean those is common, e.g. This used to be a pub back i them days.
Multicultural Toronto English (MTE) is a multi-ethnic dialect of Canadian English used in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), particularly among young non-White (non-Anglo) working-class speakers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] First studied in linguistics research of the late 2010s and early 2020s, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] the dialect is popularly recognized by its ...