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  2. North American English - Wikipedia

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    North American English encompasses the English language as spoken in both the United States and Canada. Because of their related histories and cultures, [ 2 ] plus the similarities between the pronunciations (accents), vocabulary, and grammar of U.S. English and Canadian English , linguists often group the two together.

  3. Northern American English - Wikipedia

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    Inland North American English appears in all these states, especially in areas along the Great Lakes. The recent Northern cities vowel shift, beginning only in the twentieth century, now affects much of the North away from the Atlantic coast, occurring specifically at its geographic center: the Great Lakes region.

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    Len Deighton (born 1929) is a British author. His publications have included cookery books and works on history, but he is best known for his spy novels.He had several jobs before writing his first novel, The IPCRESS File, in 1962; it was a critical and commercial success.

  5. Inland Northern American English - Wikipedia

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    Some of its features have also infiltrated a geographic corridor from Chicago southwest along historic Route 66 into St. Louis, Missouri; today, the corridor shows a mixture of both Inland North and Midland American accents. [5] Linguists often characterize the northwestern Great Lakes region's dialect separately as North-Central American English.

  6. Category:North American English - Wikipedia

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    Search. Search. Donate; ... View history; Tools. Tools. ... Pages in category "North American English" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ...

  7. History of North America - Wikipedia

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    The History of North America encompasses the past developments of people populating the continent of North America. While it was commonly accepted that the continent first became inhabited by humans when individuals migrated across the Bering Sea 40,000 to 17,000 years ago, [ 1 ] more recent discoveries may have pushed those estimates back at ...

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    On September 16, 2007, The Washington Post reported that Wikipedia had become a focal point in the 2008 US election campaign, saying: "Type a candidate's name into Google, and among the first results is a Wikipedia page, making those entries arguably as important as any ad in defining a candidate. Already, the presidential entries are being ...

  9. North American English regional phonology - Wikipedia

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    The most recent work documenting and studying the phonology of North American English dialects as a whole is the 2006 Atlas of North American English (ANAE) by William Labov, Sharon Ash, and Charles Boberg, on which much of the description below is based, following on a tradition of sociolinguistics dating to the 1960s; earlier large-scale ...