By Universities, Dialects

Dear Loretta: Thank-you for your letter. It is always interesting to hear from someone with a similar background or interest. Let me answer some of your questions for you. I want to share with you what I have learned over the years in this business. I hope I can be blunt? 1) You...

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:...

Hi, Kooyeen, Kooyeen wrote:I know you won't like my answer, but... what's wrong? That part of speech was ok. My goal is to talk like that. Ok, not really like that, but that was not "non-English", so it was ok in the end (I guess). I never said it's "non-English", I said it was ""non-BBC...

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...

I agree with Nona. I would like also to add something:all the Italians speak their language without doing any effort, but this doesn't mean that they speak a correct Italian, because you must know the grammar rules in order to speak in a very correct way. Anyway I guess it depends on what 'you...

I think her sentence is gramatically wrong I agree. is there any dialect that uses 'can be able to'?I have never heard of such a thing. what do you think of a university English teacher using this kind of wrong sentence in front of her students?It's lamentable, but it happens. You just...

Hello. I major in English at university. In my university, there is a female professor who often says 'I can be able to do --'. I think her sentence is gramatically wrong because it's redundant, but is there any dialect that uses 'can be able to'? Also, what do you think of a university...

Hi Inchoateknowledge, Thanks for an intriguing post! The one I often hear being referred to as BBC English. I have spoken about it with some people who have been raised in an English-speaking country: South-Africa, USA, England, Scotland, Philippines, from the four corners of the world; and...

Here I am, Hep! Hey, you scare me with your intention to ask lots of questions... But I'll try my best, after all! So let's start! Hepburngeng wrote:1.What are the top-10 Russian family names nowadays? Hm, it is difficult to say, really... I don't have such statistics, but the first 10...

Hello. My name is Norman Foldvari, I am an English major student at Debrecen University, Hungary. I am graduating this year and I am doing a little research on my own for which I would like to ask your help. I am writing my dissertation about English dialects and for this topic I have made a...