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Suppose we accept that statement. Why does it matter? Non-native speakers outnumber native speakers, after all; if they and their teachers create TEFL-ese, and begin to use it between themselves, that's their affair. (And imagine what our common friend M. would say, if he heard you, Anon....

I read it as: In the last decades of the eighteenth century, and in the first half of the nineteenth century, a large number of words, which are now of capital importance, came for the first time into common English use, or in case they that/in the situation that they had already been generally...

The Chinese language has many dialects. We all share the same set of characters but these characters are pronounced differently in different dialects. Same characters different pronunciations. We don't say the characters belong to any one particular dialect. They are just Chinese...

Apparently, the book A hand-book of present-day English (by E. Kruisinga) was written in 1914, so today -- nearly a hundred years later!-- there are bound to be a few things in that book that are no longer widely used. I've never heard anyone use "to" in the phrase "I'll have you know" when the...

According to John Wells at University College London: "I do not understand the proposed distinction between Mainstream RP and Contemporary RP (unless the writer thinks, wrongly, that ‘contemporary’ means ‘young’)." You can read more of what he says about it at:...

From answers.com: Speakers of some vernacular American dialects, particularly in the South, may use the possessive reflexive form hisself instead of himself (as in He cut hisself shaving) and theirselves or theirself for themselves (as in They found theirselves alone). These forms reflect the...

This is an interesting topic in my opinion but I haven't found a clear, if there is even one, answer to the problem that arises in dialect continuum, for example. Mutual intelligibility is the criterion of defining a language. So, let's say that we have numbers from 1 to 10, each number...

Ok this is my task, but i wana from u to organise and paraphrase it, please?? Really i will not forget ur help thanks alo0o0o0ot Historical linguistic: History and Development Modern historical linguistics dates from the late 18th century and grew out of the earlier discipline of...

General Canadian English is extremely similar to General American English. However, there are a number of differences between the two dialects. Firstly, GCE (General Canadian English) exhibits a linguistic phenomenon called Canadian Raising. Basically, the diphthong “ai”--as in "by" or "lie"--is...

Is it possible that it was not recorded by a native speaker? If it was, then they could be speaking a dialect that is significantly influenced by German, such as that found in certain areas of Wisconsin.