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"The Wife of His Youth" follows Mr. Ryder, a biracial man who was born and reared free before the Civil War. He heads the "Blue Veins Society", a social organization for colored people in a northern town; the membership consists of people with a high proportion of European ancestry, who look more white than black.
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The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is the most comprehensive dictionary of English dialects ever published, compiled by the Yorkshire dialectologist Joseph Wright (1855–1930), with strong support by a team and his wife Elizabeth Mary Wright (1863–1958). [1]
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Ugandan English, also colloquially referred to as Uglish (/ ˈ j uː ɡ l ɪ ʃ / YOO-glish), is the variety of English spoken in Uganda. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Aside from Uglish (first recorded in 2012), other colloquial portmanteau words are Uganglish (recorded from 2006) and Ugandlish (2010).
As described in a film magazine, [2] the wartime draft affects three families, one wealthy, one on the East Side, and the other a middle-class family.In the wealthy home a man leaves his butterfly wife and three children, in the middle class home a youth leaves his mother and sister, and in the East Side home a boy leaves his parents and three sisters, the men all marching off to training camp.
Multiethnolects appear to be less homogeneous than either dialects or sociolects and are assumed to be context-bound and transient, to the extent that they are ‘youth languages'. [3] Aasheim (1995) first coined the term kebabnorsk, referring to the Norwegian multiethnolect spoken primarily by immigrant youth in neighborhoods of eastern Oslo.
Synge was born on 16 April 1871, in Newtown Villas, Rathfarnham, County Dublin, [1] the youngest of eight children of upper-middle-class Protestant parents. [1] His father John Hatch Synge was a barrister and came from a family of landed gentry in Glanmore Castle, County Wicklow.