The rhythms of both Greek and Latin poetry are based on the quantitative length of syllables, not on stress accent as are English rhythms. |
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He'd heard my accent and decided there was no point giving me the time of day. |
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While he often raged against the race, Byron was a Scot at heart and retained a strong Aberdonian accent throughout his life. |
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When Gwenyth Paltrow perfected a flawless English accent to accompany her brilliant acting in Emma, eyes turned and casting began with absquatulation. |
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Of course, in her Neverland they bleach your teeth so white they glow and Madonna coaches you on your convincing British accent. |
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With an Eastern European accent he spoke Arabic, and I noticed his camouflage Army pants were a Russian pattern. |
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He seems miffed that Liv Ullmann would go off and do a musical when he was thinking of putting her, accent and all, in his movie. |
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Here we see an au naturel Moore, bra-less in faded rock T-shirts and vowel-mangling California accent. |
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Or Mr. carmine, a Yonkers toupee-maker with a thick Italian accent and a full head of gray hair. |
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I struck up a conversation with a man in his fifties or sixties who had a Brooklyn accent. |
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Is there more to playing a specifically American character than altering your accent? |
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The sketch was really a vehicle for Cecily Strong's hysterical, over-the-top Venezuelan accent. |
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But the people from Valley Stream had such a thick New York accent that was all around me. |
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Without warning, he reenacts a love scene from the beginning of the movie, using Puss's Castilian Spanish accent, and cracks up. |
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If a fan has a Spanish or Japanese accent, George will switch languages to accommodate them. |
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Stephenson, having come from the North, spoke with a broad Northumberland accent and not the 'Language of Parliament,' which made him seem lowly. |
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Exceptions to those rules are indicated by an acute accent mark over the vowel of the stressed syllable. |
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Exceptions to this rule are indicated by placing an acute accent on the stressed vowel. |
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A European charm of manner and a slight Scandinavian accent completed his front. No one could have looked less like a lush-roller. |
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That's quite an achievement, I think, for someone inside the M25 to travel north, especially someone with such a plummy accent. |
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His system of alliterative verse is based on accent, alliteration, the quantity of vowels, and patterns of syllabic accentuation. |
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Sellers was especially anxious about successfully enacting the role of Kong and accurately affecting a Texan accent. |
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Kubrick requested screenwriter Terry Southern to record in his natural accent a tape of Kong's lines. |
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After practising with Southern's recording, Sellers got sufficient control of the accent, and started shooting the scenes in the aeroplane. |
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Renowned for his distinctive working class cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon. |
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He doggedly retained a regional accent at a time when the plummy tones of Received Pronunciation were considered obligatory. |
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He mastered the local accent and mannerisms and credits that as being his first convincing performance. |
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Lead actress Anny Ondra was raised in Prague and had a heavy Czech accent that was felt unsuitable for the film. |
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Where in Classical Latin the place of the accent was predictable from the structure of the word, it was no longer so in Vulgar Latin. |
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The modern Cardiff accent is distinct from that of the nearby South Wales Valleys. |
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It originates from the accent of Jianzhou Jurchens and was officially standardized during the Qianlong Emperor's reign. |
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Attitudes towards southern accents, particularly the Cantonese accent, range from disdain to admiration. |
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Received Pronunciation is the accent of standard English in the UK, with speakers including the British Royal Family. |
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Some definitions of Ulster Scots may also include Standard English spoken with an Ulster Scots accent. |
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He spoke English with a very strong foreign accent, and nothing in his demeanour in any way suggested the sea. |
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He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. |
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Hopkins is a gifted mimic, adept at turning his native Welsh accent into whatever is required by a character. |
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He spoke excellent English, with the accent of an educated Englishman, although occasional Germanisms would appear in his constructions. |
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In medieval manuscripts, it is often unmarked but sometimes marked with an accent or through gemination. |
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A noted newscastress pronounces 'duchess' with an accent on the second syllable. |
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In the accent rug area, constructions will include jacquards, jacquards with heavy foam and high-definition printed ones with foam. |
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I believe I still retain some of my hearing accent when I use American Sign Language. |
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The Latin accent attaches itself to the long paenultimate or antepaenultimate syllable of a word. |
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In polysyllables the penultime is accented if the syllable be long, but in all other cases the accent is laid upon the antepenultime. |
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Mick Beards, thirty-three, is a Brummie with the Brummiest accent you have ever heard. |
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I didn't think it at all strange that a thirteen-year-old boy in the unreconstructed Southern town of Stamps spoke with an Englishy accent. |
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I heard him speak, and he had a goodish accent, as of a clerk or shopwalker. |
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The local accent is similar to the traditional dialect of Hampshire, featuring the dropping of some consonants and an emphasis on longer vowels. |
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The pronunciation of vowels varies a great deal between dialects and is one of the most detectable aspects of a speaker's accent. |
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We, the students, also were supposed to speak High German, but, like our teachers, we did so with a fairly strong Swabian accent. |
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He spoke the local Punic language fluently, but he was also educated in Latin and Greek, which he spoke with a slight accent. |
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Mr. Walker does triumphantly claim the discovery of the inverted circumflex accent, or the downward and upward continued movement. |
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His first language was Corsican, and he always spoke French with a marked Corsican accent and never learned to spell French properly. |
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He was teased by other students for his accent and applied himself to reading. |
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The East Midlands colloquially use a distinctive form of spoken dialect and accent in some areas. |
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The cockney accent has long been looked down upon and thought of as inferior by many. |
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Since then, the cockney accent has been more accepted as an alternative form of the English language rather than an inferior one. |
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Several writers have argued that Estuary English is not a discrete accent distinct from the accents of the London area. |
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The relationship between accent placement is mediated through the discourse status of particular syntactic nodes. |
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She does not fully articulate the notion of discourse status and its relation to accent marking. |
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It has been noted that prepositions are intrinsically weak and do not readily take accent. |
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In Modern Greek typesetting, this system has been simplified to only have a single accent to indicate which syllable is stressed. |
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There are many different accents and dialects throughout England and people are often very proud of their local accent or dialect. |
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As well as pride in one's accent, there is also stigma placed on many traditional working class dialects. |
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These terms, however, do not refer only to accent features but also to grammar and vocabulary, as explained in Received Pronunciation. |
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Some call centres state that they were attracted to Bradford because it has a regional accent which is relatively easy to understand. |
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But working in the opposite direction concentrations of migration may cause a town or area to develop its own accent. |
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The Liverpool accent, known as Scouse colloquially, is quite different from the accent of surrounding Lancashire. |
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The Scouse accent is highly distinctive, and has little in common with those used in the neighbouring regions of Cheshire and Lancashire. |
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The influence of Irish and Welsh migrants, combined with European accents, contributed to a distinctive local Liverpool accent. |
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It is quite noticeably different from the accent spoken in adjacent towns such as Wigan and Bolton despite them being within Greater Manchester. |
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Also from Salford is comedian Jason Manford, whose Manc accent adds to his comedic style. |
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The Mancunian accent is prominent in the locally set TV series Shameless, The Street and The Royle Family. |
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Indeed, while the lexical and grammatical isoglosses follow the Appalachian Mountains, the accent boundary follows the Ohio River. |
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Today, the city of Charleston, South Carolina clearly has all the defining features of a mainstream Midland accent. |
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The following famous people or fictional characters are often heard in public as speaking with features typical of a New York accent. |
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Over time these collective influences combined to give New York its distinctive accent. |
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Middle Eastern Americans, especially those of Syrian descent, speak their own version of the accent. |
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Due to the former isolation of some regions of the Appalachian South, the Appalachian accent may be difficult for some outsiders to understand. |
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Examples of people with this accent are Steve Irwin, Julia Gillard and Paul Hogan. |
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It has some similarities to Received Pronunciation and the Transatlantic accent. |
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Regional variation in Australia consists primarily of differences in vocabulary rather than tone or accent. |
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Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling. |
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There are several American English accents spoken in the region, including New England English and its derivative known as the Boston accent. |
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The Boston accent and those accents closely related to it cover eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. |
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However, he soon becomes disenchanted with her British accent and her penchant for strange footwear. |
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Whilst clearly being a Northern English accent, it shares much vocabulary with Scots. |
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Graham Fellows, in his persona as John Shuttleworth, uses his Sheffield accent, though his first public prominence was as cockney Jilted John. |
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Similarly, grime crews such as Scumfam use a modern Sheffield accent, which still includes some dialect words. |
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Sallis has said that creator Nick Park wanted a Lancashire accent, but Sallis could only manage to do a Yorkshire one. |
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The character of the Fat Controller in the Thomas and Friends TV series, as voiced by Michael Angelis, has a broad Yorkshire accent. |
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The accent is not so much on the honest man's problems as on the lust-riddenness of the society. |
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Jason dons a screwed-up accent that Madonna would be proud of. While Martine, loved for being a cockney sparra, unfortunately goes posh. |
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The guitar player is playing kind of melodic licks, and the horns are stabby, accent parts. |
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Jo grinned wide, immediately slipping into superflirt mode. She spoke with a slight Spanish accent. |
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As for that accent of his, his speaking in a toffy English way, it's got toffier since we've known him. |
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However, I think that on a tonological level the Indus Kohistani and the Shina accent systems are very similar. |
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In some cases, wearing the dress in its tuniclike form over a completely different outfit reduces the garment itself to a sort of accent piece. |
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Playing off the fun of the accent mark in McCafe, the McCafe Theatre, featured in national advertising and online at www. |
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Come back here with your cut glass, posh English accent and waitrons everywhere will melt at your feet. |
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A three-tone taffeta ballet slipper and a brocade slipper with a rhinestone buckle accent also should be well-received. |
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David Threlfall with a Leicester accent plays DCS David Barker, and a beardie John Simm stars as Dr Alex Jeffreys. |
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For SS14 she's gone for bright block colours, flattering body con designs and bold python prints with the accent on stylish wearability. |
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Don's over-the-top Italian-American accent, wifebeater outfit, and attitudes towards women mean he's a character riddled with lazy stereotypes. |
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A New Zealand man rang 999 to claim he'd been raped by a wombat and that the experience left him speaking with an Australian accent. |
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There were changes in the interior as well, like grey accent stitching and premium woodgrain ornamentation. |
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When you attended opening night of Xanadu on Broadway, how did it feel watching Kerry Butler mimic your accent and mannerisms? |
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I'm really looking forward to getting back there and hearing that yam yam accent again. |
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People on the telly, they try to do a a Birmingham accent and it ends up like a bit of a Yam Yam accent and a drone that nobody's heard of. |
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On it a young beardless man speaks Chechen and Arabic with a soft accent. |
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Niche, with its origin in Sheffield and Leeds, has a much faster bassline and is often sung in a northern accent. |
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Cantonese romanization systems are based on the accent of Canton and Hong Kong, and have helped define the concept of Standard Cantonese. |
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He would sometimes indulge his Welsh accent as well as conceal it behind an English public school veneer. |
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It was in Exeter that he acquired the West Country accent that became part of his act. |
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He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes. |
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Dominic Monaghan speaks with a notable Manc accent, and his characters in both Lost and FlashForward have made note of it. |
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Interestingly, accent 1 generally occurs in words that were monosyllabic in Old Norse, and accent 2 in words that were polysyllabic. |
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Norwegian is a pitch accent language with two distinct pitch patterns, like Swedish. |
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In London itself, the broad local accent is still changing, partly influenced by Caribbean speech. |
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In Northampton the older accent has been influenced by overspill Londoners. |
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There is an accent known locally as the Kettering accent, which is a transitional accent between the East Midlands and East Anglian. |
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With his pedo-stache firmly penciled on, Kline nails the accent, the affectations and the alcoholism. |
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Recent polls put the West Country accent as third and fifth most attractive in the British Isles respectively. |
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Suggs' vocal performance changed significantly, and his strong accent from the previous albums had been watered down. |
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The stress accent had already begun to cause the erosion of unstressed syllables, which would continue in its descendants. |
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I can do a French accent or a German accent or a British accent. Pip, pip! Lovely day, isn't it? |
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The Dutch legacy is still recognizable in Pernambuco's people, accent and architecture. |
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While many of the Lancashire accents may sound similar to outsiders, the exception is the 'Scouse' accent, as spoken in Liverpool. |
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Today, the Scouse accent is completely distinct from others in the North West of England and bears little resemblance to them. |
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The North Wales accent is distinct from South Wales and north east Wales is influenced by Scouse and Cheshire accents. |
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The Ulster accent has two main sub accents, namely Mid Ulster English and Ulster Scots. |
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The United States does not have a concrete 'standard' accent in the same way that Britain has Received Pronunciation. |
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To outsiders, the accent has resemblances to the accents of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. |
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Apart from the inability to pronounce 'f' and 'v' most of the time, in reality, there is no single Philippine English accent. |
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The Malaysian accent appears to be a melding of British, Chinese, Tamil and Malay influences. |
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Although often associated with the RP accent, SE can be spoken with any accent. |
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In older printed editions of Old English works, an acute accent mark was used to maintain cohesion between Old English and Old Norse printing. |
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It is difficult to measure or predict how long it takes an accent to formulate. |
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Accents seem to remain relatively malleable until a person's early twenties, after which a person's accent seems to become more entrenched. |
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In accent discrimination, one's way of speaking is used as a basis for arbitrary evaluations and judgments. |
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Unlike other forms of discrimination, there are no strong norms against accent discrimination in the general society. |
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We have no such compunctions about language, thus, accent becomes a litmus test for exclusion, and excuse to turn away, to recognize the other. |
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Studies have shown the perception of the accent, not the accent by itself, often results in negative evaluations of speakers. |
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The standard language may be pronounced with a regional accent and the contrapositive is usually correct. |
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Thus, a strong accent similar to Central Ontarian is heard, yet many different phrasings exist. |
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The broad, general and cultivated accents form a continuum that reflects minute variations in the Australian accent. |
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There are distinctive features of accent, grammar, words and meanings, as well as language use. |
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The New Zealand accent appeared first in towns with mixed populations of immigrants from Australia, England, Ireland, and Scotland. |
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It is now common to hear British MCs rapping in a strong London accent. |
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There was also an accent on languages, science and particularly design, where a collegiate atmosphere flourished under the tutorship of Owen Frampton. |
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The circumflex, grave accent, trema and tilde appear on some letters. |
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The word eh is used quite frequently in the North Central dialect, so a Canadian accent is often perceived in people from North Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. |
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As a distinct dialect, Australian English differs considerably from other varieties of English in vocabulary, accent, pronunciation, register, grammar and spelling. |
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His mannerisms and Galloway accent struck the other boys as rustic. |
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Some cities in close proximity have a different dialect and accent, such as Scousers from Liverpool and Mancunians from Manchester who are separated by just 35 miles. |
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Trudi still had a German accent, but Liesl and Fritz were perfect New Yorkers who said bold and toid, Noo Joysey, Lawn Guyland, and were adopting youse from the Irish. |
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Generally, other diacritical marks only occur in loanwords, though the acute accent can also be used for emphasis or to differentiate between two forms. |
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It also brought about a general opinion among speakers of Low Saxon that having the slightest accent, in Dutch, would reduce job opportunities and social status. |
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In more homogeneous towns such as those in Otago and Southland, settled mainly by people from Scotland, the New Zealand accent took longer to appear. |
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In this way c surmounted by an inverted circumflex accent stands for our sound of ch, which in Russian, Polish, or Servian words, we usually see spelled cz. |
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Though spelling differences occasionally differentiate written words, in most cases the minimal pairs are written alike, since written Norwegian has no explicit accent marks. |
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There are significant variations in pitch accent between dialects. |
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As a result, the speech of Norfolk is more of an accent than a dialect, though one part retained from the Norfolk dialect is the distinctive grammar of the region. |
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Most people in Britain speak with a regional accent or dialect. |
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The use of the term to describe all Londoners generally, however, survived into the 19th century before becoming restricted to the working class and their particular accent. |
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This rising inflection will be indicated by an inverted circumflex being placed over the last syllable in the clause that bears the primary accent. |
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Estuary English is an English dialect or accent associated with South East England, especially the area along the River Thames and its estuary, centering around London. |
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I don't know where he was from because he had no identifiable accent. |
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Australian English is a major variety of the language with a distinctive accent and lexicon, and differs slightly from other varieties of English in grammar and spelling. |
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There is a popular prejudice that stereotypes speakers as unsophisticated and even backward, due possibly to the deliberate and lengthened nature of the accent. |
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While the accents in northeastern New England, such as the Boston accent, also remain unmerged, lot remains rounded, and merges instead with cloth and thought. |
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With this younger and more unified pronunciation system, Southern American English now comprises the largest American regional accent group by number of speakers. |
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Based on the recorded message, police began searching for a man with a Wearside accent, which was narrowed down to the Castletown area of Sunderland. |
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However, the accent of Hull and East Yorkshire remains markedly different. |
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The film is notorious for not having the actors speak without the district Norrland accent, even the actors in the film which are native to Norrland. |
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His only visit to London had been that on which been touched by Queen Anne for the King's Evil and throughout his life he preserved a Midland accent in his speech. |
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Westendorff was the first white person I'd met with a true Charleston accent. The dialect had high and low forms, with the latter known as Geech or Geechee. |
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It is a sweet irony that his accent has become his calling card. |
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The application will correctly translate accent marks, allowing true translations in French, German, and other languages that feature multiple accents. |
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Cumbria is a large area with several relatively isolated districts, so there is quite a large variation in accent, especially between north and south or the coastal towns. |
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Another feature in the Kerry accent is the S before the consonant. |
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Many Irish Travellers who were born in parts of Dublin or Britain have the accent in spite of it being strikingly different from the local accents in those regions. |
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The accent of the Middlesbrough area has some similarities with Geordie. |
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They are part of a continuum, reflecting variations in accent. |
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The director Ken Loach has set several of his films in South Yorkshire and has stated that he doesn't want actors to deviate from their natural accent. |
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From some time during the 19th century, middle and upper middle classes began to adopt affectations, including the RP accent, associated with the upper class. |
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After the Second World War, about one million Londoners were relocated to new and expanded towns throughout the south east, bringing with them their distinctive London accent. |
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Diacritical marks, which include accent marks, tildes, umlauts and other notations, help to distinguish one letter from another and aid in pronunciation. |
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Andrea acknowledged that she spoke Chinglish, that she hated her accent, and that learners needed a comprehensible teacher voice in the classroom. |
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Within as little as 5 miles there can be an identifiable change in accent. |
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Wallace of Wallace and Gromit, voiced by Peter Sallis, has his accent from Holme Valley of West Yorkshire, despite the character living in nearby Lancashire. |
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So why do Scots feel we have to Anglify our accent all the time? |
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Others have developed a pitch accent, such as Nahuatl of Oapan, Guerrero. |
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He lost 30lbs for the part, kept his Northern Irish accent on and off the set for the entire shooting schedule, and spent stretches of time in a prison cell. |
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In India it is even possible to receive training to acquire an English accent, as the number of outsourced call centres in India has soared in the past decades. |
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The standardized orthography marks the long vowels with an acute accent. |
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However, employers may claim that a person's accent impairs his or her communication skills that are necessary to the effective business operation. |
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The dialect is widely known for its pronunciation system, the New York accent, which comprises a number of both conservative and innovative features. |
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A General American sound is then the result of both suburbanization and suppression of regional accent by highly educated Americans in formal settings. |
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Syllable structure often interacts with stress or pitch accent. |
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For example, when emphasis is produced through pitch alone, it is called pitch accent, and when produced through length alone, it is called quantitative accent. |
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These can be compared to the various types of accent in music theory. |
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Research has shown, however, that although dynamic accent is accompanied by greater respiratory force, it does not mean a more forceful articulation in the vocal tract. |
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