Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Dialects can be classified at broader or narrower levels: within a broad national or regional dialect, various more localised sub-dialects can be identified, and so on. The combination of differences in pronunciation and use of local words may make some English dialects almost unintelligible to speakers from other regions without any prior ...
Essentially all of the modern-day Southern dialects, plus dialects marginal to the South (some even in geographically and culturally "Northern" states), are thus considered a subset of this super-region: [note 2] the whole American South, the southern half of the Mid-and South Atlantic regions, and a transitional Midland dialect area between ...
However many differences still hold and mark boundaries between different dialect areas, as shown below. From 2000 to 2005, for instance, The Dialect Survey queried North American English speakers' usage of a variety of linguistic items, including vocabulary items that vary by region. [2] These include: generic term for a sweetened carbonated ...
Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect [1] [2] or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United States, primarily by White Southerners and increasingly concentrated in more rural areas. [3]
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.
— Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website 'Hover & Hear' Accents of English from Around the World Archived 2011-04-29 at the Wayback Machine, listen and compare side by side instantaneously. International Dialects of English Archive
Socio-linguists from N.C. State University’s Language & Life Project have identified five dialects across the state, all of which contribute colorfully to the way North Carolinians talk.
North-Central American English is an American English dialect, or dialect in formation, native to the Upper Midwestern United States, an area that somewhat overlaps with speakers of the separate Inland Northern dialect situated more in the eastern Great Lakes region. [1]