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Regional vocabulary within American English varies. Below is a list of lexical differences in vocabulary that are generally associated with a region. A term featured on a list may or may not be found throughout the region concerned, and may or may not be recognized by speakers outside that region.
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus by Tom Heehler (Sourcebooks 2011), is an American style guide and speaking aid. The Chicago Tribune calls The Well-Spoken Thesaurus "a celebration of the spoken word". [1] The book has also been reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, [2] and by bloggers at the Fayetteville Observer, [3] and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...
Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a 20th-century continuation of an ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetics of recitation and word play , such as the performer's live intonation and voice inflection.
Phonaesthetics (also spelled phonesthetics in North America) is the study of the beauty and pleasantness associated with the sounds of certain words or parts of words.The term was first used in this sense, perhaps by J. R. R. Tolkien, [1] during the mid-20th century and derives from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ) ' voice, sound ' and αἰσθητική (aisthētikḗ) ' aesthetics '.
"Ek klap 'n ding wat laf raak!" (Jokingly "clap"). (Soft way of saying you've lost it or you're a clown!) lag – to laugh. For example: They lag at the joke. laaitie, lighty – a younger person, esp. a younger male such as a younger brother or son; lank – lots/a lot; langeraad – (pronounced: "lung-A-raat") cutesy nickname given to a ...
In the Latin-based orthographies of many European languages, including English, a distinction between hard and soft c occurs in which c represents two distinct phonemes. The sound of a hard c often precedes the non-front vowels a , o and u , and is that of the voiceless velar stop , /k/ (as in car ).
It is uncertain to what extent current white Southern English borrowed elements from early AAVE, and vice versa. Like many white accents of English once spoken in Southern plantation areas—namely, the Lowcountry, the Virginia Piedmont, Tidewater, and the lower Mississippi Valley—the modern-day AAVE accent is mostly non-rhotic (or "r ...
The orthography of soft g is fairly consistent: a soft g is almost always followed by e i y . The notable exceptions are gaol (now more commonly spelled jail ) and margarine (a French borrowing whose original hard g softened for unknown reasons, even though the name Margaret has a hard g ).