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Midland City is a town in Dale County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 U.S. Census the population was 2,344. [2] It incorporated in 1890. [3] It is part of the Ozark Micropolitan Statistical Area.
On January 29, 2013, a hostage crisis, lasting almost seven days, began in the Wiregrass Region near U.S. Highway 231 in Midland City, Alabama. Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old Vietnam War-era veteran, boarded a Dale County school bus, killed the driver, and took a five-year-old boy hostage.
Phonologically, the South Midland remains slightly different from the North Midland (and more like the American South) in certain respects: its greater likelihood of a fronted /oʊ/, a pin–pen merger, and a "glideless" /aɪ/ vowel reminiscent of the Southern U.S. accent, though /aɪ/ monophthongization in the South Midland only tends to ...
Dale County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Alabama.As of the 2020 census the population was 49,326. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Ozark. [2]
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.
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Midland F1 Racing, a former Formula One racing team; Midland Group, a Russian construction team, owners of Midland F1; Midland Holdings, one of the largest real estate agents in Hong Kong; Midland Radio, an American manufacturer of wireless two way radio equipment; Midland Credit Management, Inc. an American debt buyer; The Midland, regional ...
A diversity of earlier Southern dialects once existed: a consequence of the mix of English speakers from the British Isles (including largely English and Scots-Irish immigrants) who migrated to the American South in the 17th and 18th centuries, with particular 19th-century elements also borrowed from the London upper class and enslaved African-Americans.