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  2. African-American English - Wikipedia

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    The broad topic of the English language, in its diverse forms, as used by Black people in North America has various names, including Black American English or simply Black English. Also common is the somewhat controversial term Ebonics and, more recently in academic linguistics, African American Language ( AAL ).

  3. African-American Vernacular English - Wikipedia

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    McWhorter discusses an accent continuum from "a 'deep' Black English through a 'light' Black English to standard English," saying the sounds on this continuum may vary from one African American speaker to the next or even in a single speaker from one situational context to the next. [64]

  4. Black Country dialect - Wikipedia

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    The Black Country dialect is spoken by many people in the Black Country, a region covering most of the four Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. [1] The traditional dialect preserves many archaic traits of Early Modern English and even Middle English [ 2 ] and may be unintelligible for outsiders.

  5. How 'Gen Z Slang' Connects to Black Culture Appropriation - AOL

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    While some people call it Gen Z slang or Gen Z lingo, these words actually come from Black culture, and their adoption among a wider group of people show how words and phrases from Black ...

  6. Brummie dialect - Wikipedia

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    Urszula Clark has proposed the FACE vowel as a difference between Birmingham and Black Country pronunciation, with Birmingham speakers using /ʌɪ/ and Black Country speakers using /æɪ/. [10] She also mentions that Black Country speakers are more likely to use /ɪʊ/ where most other accents use /juː/ (in words such as new, Hugh, stew, etc ...

  7. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    The term originated from Black gay culture and implies that someone's faults can be so obvious that it would be like reading text from a book. The concept is what powers the Reading Challenge on ...

  8. Regional accents of English - Wikipedia

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    People from the northern Philippines may pronounce /r/ as a strong trill instead of a tap, which is more commonly used in the rest of the Philippines, as the trill is a feature of the Ilocano language. Ilocano people generally pronounce the schwa sound /ə/ better than other Filipinos because they use a similar sound in their native language ...

  9. Why does RFK sound like that? Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vocal ...

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    It causes the voice to suddenly sound breathy, strained, shaky or hoarse as if a person has lost their voice, according to the Cleveland Clinic. The spasms sometimes make the vocal cords very ...