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  2. List of dialects of English - Wikipedia

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    The major native dialects of English are often divided by linguists into three general categories: the British Isles dialects, those of North America, and those of Australasia. [2] Dialects can be associated not only with place but also with particular social groups. Within a given English-speaking country, there is a form of the language ...

  3. Mincemeat - Wikipedia

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    Mincemeat. Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped apples and dried fruit, distilled spirits or vinegar, spices, and optionally, meat and beef suet. Mincemeat is usually used as a pie or pastry filling. Traditional mincemeat recipes contain meat, notably beef or venison, as this was a way of preserving meat prior to modern preservation methods. [1]

  4. Regional accents of English - Wikipedia

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    The accents of English in Wales are strongly influenced by the phonology of the Welsh language, which more than 20% of the population of Wales speak as their first or second language. The North Wales accent is distinct from South Wales. North East Wales is influenced by Scouse and Cheshire accents.

  5. Western Pennsylvania English - Wikipedia

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    eɪ aɪ ɔɪ aʊ oʊ. A defining feature of Western Pennsylvania English is the cot–caught merger, in which /ɑ/ (as in ah) and /ɔ/ (as in aw) merge to a rounded /ɒ/ (phonetically [ɒ ~ ɔ]). As in most other American dialects, the father–bother merger also occurs. [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 15 ] Therefore, cot and caught are both pronounced /kɒt/; Don ...

  6. Yorkshire dialect - Wikipedia

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    Yorkshire dialect (also known as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke, Yorkie, or Yorkshire English) is a geographic grouping of several dialects of English spoken in the Yorkshire region of Northern England. [1] The varieties have roots in Old English and are influenced to a greater extent by Old Norse than Standard English is.

  7. Category:Dialects of English - Wikipedia

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    Category. : Dialects of English. Wikimedia Commons has media related to English dialects. This category contains both accents and dialects specific to groups of speakers of the English language. General pronunciation issues that are not specific to a single dialect are categorized under the English phonology category.

  8. Ground meat - Wikipedia

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    Ground beef in an industrial grinder. Ground meat, called mince or minced meat outside North America, is meat finely chopped by a meat grinder or a chopping knife. A common type of ground meat is ground beef, but many other types of meats are prepared in a similar fashion, including pork, veal, lamb, goat meat, and poultry.

  9. Older Southern American English - Wikipedia

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    Older Southern American English is a diverse set of American English dialects of the Southern United States spoken most widely up until the American Civil War of the 1860s, before gradually transforming among its White speakers, first, by the turn of the 20th century, and, again, following the Great Depression, World War II, and, finally, the Civil Rights Movement. [1]