S hare your beac h. Post comments, photos and videos, or broadcast a live stream, to friends, family, followers, or everyone. Share thoughts, events, experiences, and milestones, as you travel along the path that is uniquely yours. Share your world. Popular Conversations. Fill in the blank space with an antonym of the italicized word. Weegy: 1. The English spoken by their descendants is colored by their mother tongues: The word brogue itself to describe an Irish accent originally meant a "stout coarse shoe worn formerly in Ireland and the Scottish Highlands," and insultingly implied that the Irish spoke English so poorly, it sounded like they had a boot in their mouths.
The impact of Italian is heard in the regional tendency to elongate words—turning Acme supermarket into "Ack-a-me. And when locals replace the "th" sound in words with a "t" sound—"three" becoming "tree" or "cathedral" becoming "cateedral"—you're hearing the influence of Polish and other Slavic languages.
Pennsylvania's urban centers such as Pittsburgh and Philadelphia have their own vernacular. The word "yunz"—a kind of Northern "y'all,"—is quintessential Pittsburghese, whereas Philadelphians favor "yiz" to mean the same thing, a plural of "you" that doesn't exist in standard English.
Very many local accents are now associated with working-class speakers, while middle and upper-class speakers tend to use a more standardised English. But this is a relatively recent development. Indeed, until the standardisation of English from the 16th century — when one variety of English came to be used in official situations and by printing presses for the wider publication of books — it was acceptable for speakers of different social classes to speak and write in their own dialects.
Then, Latin and French were regarded as prestigious languages, applied by the elite in education, law and literature. Dialects and accents are changing and will continue to change. After all, language never stands still. Some traditional dialects are disappearing, but new urban and multicultural varieties continue to arise. This can be influenced by music. In addition, people change the language they use depending on who they are talking to, and why they are talking, for example formally in a job interview or casually to friends and family at home.
Where in the world is the highest density of languages? Geography professor and researcher, Benjamin Hennig, addresses this question. Do You Speak American? Dialects in Schools and Communities, Second Edition This book describes dialect differences in American English, explores the impact in education and daily life for dialect speakers, and outlines issues facing educational practitioners working with these students. Ebonics: The Urban Education Debate, 2nd Edition This publication traces the distant and recent history of the Ebonics debate in the United States, with leading scholars placing the debate within its historical and contemporary context.
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