By Articles, Accents

There's some truth in that article. My parents, for instance, used to speak in Sardinian (not a dialect, but recognised as an endangered language by the UNESCO) when talking to each other or to their relatives, but they would only speak Italian with my brother and me. I grew up monolingual,...

Well, you are supposed to write about the *new* trends in Canadian English. Not the history of CE. I think that the Canadian Shift would probably be your best bet--it is a very recent innovation, and thus is one of the few features of CE that could be considered new. It also has many...

Hi,Although I know my English is poor, I would like you to listen to my recording and tell me how do you find my accent and whether this what I was talking about is understandable at all. I was trying to speak as I normally do, at school, while meeting somebody - not writing on some piece of...

Hi Feathers,yes, she probably say that. You know, I didn't read it all and learned it by heart, I just tried to remember the most important things and see if I recognize some of those featuers in Americans' speech. For example, I didn't try any of those exercises with the rubber band... I still...

You should find this wiki article on British English accents and dialects usefulYep, already finished that one yesterday. I don't know how many different English accents there are. Some areas have their own accent and even some cities/towns have their own accent. I thought you only had a few....

accent: a way of speaking typical of a particular group of people and especially of the natives or residents of a region dialect: a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with...

Anonymous wrote:And, if anyone can help, what is the accent there like ? Can someone give an example ? Thanx.In Hull, they don't make phone calls, they make 'fern curls'. 'Oh no!' becomes 'er ner!', 'hello' is 'herler'...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull(scroll down to...

In VERBATIM; THE LANGUAGE QUARTERLY, for Autumn 1989, pages 8-10, there is a letter from a man in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Mr. Jacob de Jager says he was born in Holland in 1923 and received his education through senior high school in that country. As he studied English, he and others were...

Beg to disagree there Greg. In the past some 'H' words were pronounced without the 'h' - hotel and historic, for example. So they took 'an' as the indefinite article. Other h words have always been pronounced with the 'h' and they take the indefinite article 'a'. I'm sure you wouldn't say 'I...

At Indian call centres when they are dealing with western customers, they do not use Indian English. They use British or American English. They even go so far as to give themselves English names and some companies give lessons in English (or whatever) culture, so they can chat about all sorts of...