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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. Western Pennsylvania English - Wikipedia

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    A sign using "Dahntahn" to mean "Downtown" in Downtown Pittsburgh.. Western Pennsylvania English, known more narrowly as Pittsburgh English or popularly as Pittsburghese, is a dialect of American English native primarily to the western half of Pennsylvania, centered on the city of Pittsburgh, but potentially appearing in some speakers as far north as Erie County, as far west as Youngstown ...

  4. Accent perception - Wikipedia

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    Accent perception. Accents are the distinctive variations in the pronunciation of a language. They can be native or foreign, local or national and can provide information about a person’s geographical locality, socio-economic status and ethnicity. [1] The perception of accents is normal within any given group of language users and involves ...

  5. General American English - Wikipedia

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    English-language scholar William A. Kretzschmar Jr. explains in a 2004 article that the term "General American" came to refer to "a presumed most common or 'default' form of American English, especially to be distinguished from marked regional speech of New England or the South" and referring especially to speech associated with the vaguely-defined "Midwest", despite any historical or present ...

  6. Multicultural London English - Wikipedia

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    For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century. It is spoken mainly by young, working-class people in multicultural parts of London. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Speakers of MLE come from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and ...

  7. Drawl - Wikipedia

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    A drawl is a perceived feature of some varieties of spoken English and generally indicates slower, longer vowel sounds and diphthongs. The drawl is often perceived as a method of speaking more slowly and may be erroneously attributed to laziness or fatigue. That particular speech pattern exists primarily in varieties of English, the most ...

  8. English language in Northern England - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The spoken English language in Northern England has been shaped by the region's history of settlement and migration, and today encompasses a group of related accents and dialects known as Northern England English (or, simply, Northern (English) in the ...

  9. Accent (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In English poetry, accent refers to the stressed syllable of a polysyllabic word, or a monosyllabic word that receives stress because it belongs to an "open class" of words (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) or because of "contrastive" or "rhetorical" stress. In basic analysis of a poem by scansion, accents can be represented by a short ...