enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of dialects of English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English

    Dialects can be defined as "sub-forms of languages which are, in general, mutually comprehensible." [1] English speakers from different countries and regions use a variety of different accents (systems of pronunciation) as well as various localized words and grammatical constructions.

  3. Big Tech - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech

    Big Tech, also known as the Tech Giants or Tech Titans, [1] is a grouping of the largest IT companies in the world. The concept of Big Tech is similar to the grouping of dominant companies in other sectors . [ 2 ]

  4. English language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

    The earliest varieties of an English language, collectively known as Old English or "Anglo-Saxon", evolved from a group of North Sea Germanic dialects brought to Britain in the 5th century. Old English dialects were later influenced by Old Norse-speaking Viking invaders and settlers, starting in the 8th and 9th centuries.

  5. Category:Dialects of English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dialects_of_English

    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.

  6. Category:English dialect words - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_dialect_words

    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file

  7. British English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English

    British English (abbreviations: BrE, en-GB, and BE) [3] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United Kingdom. [6] More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to the collective dialects of English throughout the British Isles taken as a single umbrella variety, for instance additionally incorporating Scottish English ...

  8. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_words_having...

    For the first portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English (A–L). Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other dialect; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively. Additional usage ...

  9. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_correspondences...

    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values.