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  2. Accent wall - Wikipedia

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    An accent wall or feature wall is an interior wall whose design differs from that of the other walls in the room. The accent wall's color can simply be a different shade of the color of the other walls, or have a different design in terms of the color and material. [1] Accent wall offers a simple, stylish way to add colours to a room. [2]

  3. General American English - Wikipedia

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    General American English, known in linguistics simply as General American (abbreviated GA or GenAm ), is the umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans, encompassing a continuum rather than a single unified accent. [1] [2] [3] It is often perceived by Americans themselves as lacking any distinctly regional, ethnic, or ...

  4. Dialect - Wikipedia

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    Such institutional support may include any or all of the following: government recognition or designation; formal presentation in schooling as the "correct" form of a language; informal monitoring of everyday usage; published grammars, dictionaries, and textbooks that set forth a normative spoken and written form; and an extensive formal ...

  5. Western American English - Wikipedia

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    Western American English (also known as Western U.S. English) is a variety of American English that largely unites the entire Western United States as a single dialect region, including the states of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming. It also generally encompasses Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, some ...

  6. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    A common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of state is not a monarch. Montesquieu included both democracies, where all the people have a share in rule, and aristocracies or oligarchies, where only some of the people rule, as republican forms of government. These categories are not exclusive.

  7. Standard English - Wikipedia

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    Standard English. In an English-speaking country, Standard English ( SE) is the variety of English that has undergone codification to the point of being socially perceived as the standard language, associated with formal schooling, language assessment, and official print publications, such as public service announcements and newspapers of ...

  8. Glasgow dialect - Wikipedia

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    sco-u-sd-gbglg, en-scotland-u-sd-gbglg. The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other. [1] [2] Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegians can draw on a "continuum between fully localised and fully standardised". [3]

  9. Cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    For the numbers 2 and 3, accent diacritics are often used as well: an acute accent stands for no. 2 and a grave accent for no. 3. Thus, u is equivalent to u 1 (π’Œ‹), ΓΊ is equivalent to u 2 (π’Œ‘) and ΓΉ to u 3 (π’…‡). The sequence of numbering is conventional but essentially arbitrary and a consequence of the history of decipherment.