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Over time, the changes went beyond accent to include different words and grammatical structures, adding up to a new dialect. Dialects have two main causes. The first is isolation; early colonists ...
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The Toronto Accent Is Real
It’s been called an act and “the worst accent in the world.” Why can’t locals see it for what it is? The post The Toronto ...
Accents, in whatever language, stubbornly hang in there for years, decades, a lifetime, without being easily rubbed out. Aha, I said, thinking of my Southern mother, who said "heah" for "here ...
An accent can make or break a movie, and there are a lot of unfortunate examples of the latter even in some of the greatest ...
But what was the skill in its presentation as art? So I began to reach a definition of art. A work of art is that which asks a question which a non-art object such as a wall does not: What am I? What ...