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New Mexico has two state songs in Spanish: "Así Es Nuevo México" is the official Spanish state song, while "New Mexico - Mi Lindo Nuevo Mexico" is the state bilingual song. Iowa 's " The Song of Iowa " uses the tune from the song " O Tannenbaum " as its melody. [ 4 ]
Regional vocabulary within American English varies. Below is a list of lexical differences in vocabulary that are generally associated with a region. A term featured on a list may or may not be found throughout the region concerned, and may or may not be recognized by speakers outside that region. Some terms appear on more than one list.
Regional dialects in North America are historically the most strongly differentiated along the Eastern seaboard, due to distinctive speech patterns of urban centers of the American East Coast like Boston, New York City, and certain Southern cities, all of these accents historically noted by their London-like r-dropping (called non-rhoticity), a feature gradually receding among younger ...
For example, /æ/ may be generally raised and /ɑ/ generally fronted in comparison to other American English accents. [9] Some speakers exhibit extreme raising of /æ/ before voiced velars (/ɡ/ and /ŋ/), with an up-glide, and so bag sounds close to beg or is even raised like the first syllable of bagel. Other examples are the words flag and ...
Pages in category "United States state songs" The following 83 pages are in this category, out of 83 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
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 ...
Regional anthems by country. List of British anthems; Regional anthems of Finland; List of Indian state anthems; List of prefecture songs of Japan; State anthems of Malaysia; Anthems of the autonomous communities of Spain; List of U.S. state songs; List of anthems of Venezuela; Former countries. Anthems of the Soviet Republics
Indian state songs (1 C, 5 P) J. Japanese prefectural songs (3 P) M. ... Pages in category "Regional songs" The following 126 pages are in this category, out of 126 ...