• The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is the most comprehensive dictionary of English dialects ever published, compiled by the Yorkshire dialectologist...
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    Wright, the founder of the Yorkshire Dialect Society and the author of the English Dialect Dictionary. Investigations at village level by the dialect analysts...
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    culminated in the publication of the Dictionary of American Regional English. In 1889, when Joseph Wright began editing the English Dialect Dictionary, a group...
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    Geordie (redirect from Geordie dialect)
    Tyneside English or Newcastle English, is an English dialect and accent spoken in the Tyneside area of North East England. It developed as a variety of the old...
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    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University...
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  • delimiters. The English language spoken and written in England encompasses a diverse range of accents and dialects. The language forms part of the broader...
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    help. The Lancashire dialect (or colloquially, Lanky) refers to the Northern English vernacular speech of the English county of Lancashire. The region...
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  • in 1873, but wound up after the publication of Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary had begun. Such a society was first proposed by Aldis Wright in...
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    Cumbria have a more North-East English sound to them. Whilst clearly spoken with a Northern English accent, the Cumbrian dialect shares much vocabulary with...
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    lip. The English Dialect Dictionary, compiled by Joseph Wright, defines the word gurn as "to snarl as a dog; to look savage; to distort the countenance...
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  • Hopi Dictionary/Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi–English Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect (Hopi pronunciation: [hoˈpiˌikwa laˈβajˌtɯtɯˌβɛni]) is a Hopi–English...
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    East Midlands English is a dialect, including local and social variations spoken in most parts of East Midlands England. It generally includes areas east...
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    Joseph Wright (linguist) (category Lexicographers of English)
    of the English Dialect Society, and A. J. Balfour, at the time First Lord of the Treasury, made a grant from the Royal Bounty Fund. The Dictionary remains...
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  • Loiner (section Dialect)
    Loiners. The term Leeds Loiner was included by Joseph Wright, a native of nearby Windhill and Wrose, in the English Dialect Dictionary. The definition...
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  • Celtic language; and Latin, brought to Britain by the Roman conquest. Old English had four main dialects, associated with particular Anglo-Saxon kingdoms:...
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  • delimiters. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language...
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    different dialects and accents of Modern English spoken in Southern England. As of the 21st century, a wide class of dialects labelled "Estuary English" is...
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  • Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United...
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    (1905). The English Dialect Dictionary. Vol. V. Henry Frowde. p. 690. Robert Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England, 3rd edition, 1916, The Old Woman...
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    Scrumpy (category English ciders)
    attested in the Oxford English Dictionary, and the English Dialect Dictionary confirms the existence of the word scrump applied to "anything small or undersized"...
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    Appalachian English is American English native to the Appalachian mountain region of the Eastern United States. Historically, the term Appalachian dialect refers...
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    distinguishing a language from a dialect, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about whether Scots is a dialect of English or a separate language...
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    Bairn (category English dialect words)
    Scotland and the North of England c. 1700. In Hull the r is dropped and the word Bain is used. The word was included in the English Dialect Dictionary with variant...
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  • Wright began editing the English Dialect Dictionary (EDD), a group of American philologists founded the American Dialect Society with the ultimate purpose...
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  • financial donation for the production of the English Dialect Dictionary, compiled by the working-class Joseph Wright. Yorkshire dialect, the accent of Yorkshire...
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    English Dialect Dictionary (late 19th century) and the Survey of English Dialects (mid 20th century), but there has been widespread dialect levelling...
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  • Atlas of North America at the University of Pennsylvania Speech Accent Archive Dictionary of American Regional English Dialect maps based on pronunciation...
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    (1898). The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two...
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  • seems to contain the Old English dumbel or dymbel, 'hollow; wooded valley; deep cut water course'. The English Dialect Dictionary finds the word in Cheshire...
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    In the 12th century, The Karakhanid-Turkic scholar Mahmud Kashgari finished his work "Divan-u Lügat'it Türk", a dictionary about the Turkic dialects, but...
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