• Baltimore accent, or a variation thereof, is also shared by many African Americans throughout Maryland and the Washington metropolitan area. Although...
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  • metropolitan Boston into metropolitan Worcester, the bulk of New Hampshire, and central and coastal Maine. Boston speech also originated many slang and...
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  • some Black Canadians. Having its own unique grammatical, vocabulary, and accent features, AAVE is employed by middle-class Black Americans as the more informal...
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  • Canadian accent is often perceived in people from North Dakota, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. A rubber in the US and Canada is slang for a condom...
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    New York City (redirect from N. Y. C.)
    megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. by both population and urban area. With more than 20.1 million...
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    Philadelphia (category Articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers)
    and accent that's distinctly Philly". CBS Interactive Inc. Archived from the original on February 15, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2017. "Philly Slang"....
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    H-dropping, and, like most English accents, a Cockney accent drops the "r" after a vowel. John Camden Hotten, in his Slang Dictionary of 1859, makes reference...
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  • American accent. The sound of American English continues to evolve, with some local accents disappearing, but several larger regional accents having emerged...
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    Pacific Northwest (category Megapolitan areas of the United States)
    thing as the Pacific Northwest. The region's largest metropolitan areas are Greater Seattle, Washington, with 4 million people; Metro Vancouver, British Columbia...
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  • many middle-class African Americans, particularly in urban areas, with its own unique accent, grammar, and vocabulary features. Typical features of the...
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  • origins explained. Some of the origins are disputed. Contents:  0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References 19 Entertainment...
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    Northeast after New York City and Philadelphia. The Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area, including and surrounding the city, is the largest in New England...
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    center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's economic and administrative center...
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  • name origins explained and referenced with reliable sources. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Bibliography See also References...
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    Capital City Statistical Areas (metropolitan areas of the state and mainland territorial capital cities) in 2018. Metropolitan areas with more than one million...
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  • Attributed to multiple references: Based in Warsaw, Poland. Based in Washington, D.C. Based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Based in New Delhi, India. Based in...
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  • May 12, 1987, for 146 episodes. The show chronicles the lives of the Metropolitan Police Department staff of a single police station located on Hill Street...
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    as its metropolitan area. Octavia Williams Bates Gin'nnah Muhammad Rosa Parks Betty Shabazz Jalonne White-Newsome Malcolm X Charles N. Agree C. Howard...
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    industrial Midwestern metropolitan areas, with significant communities also residing in many other major U.S. metropolitan areas. Between 1820 and 2004...
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    City and Washington metropolitan areas, as well as on the West Coast in Silicon Valley, where there are Tamil associations such as the Bay Area Tamil Mandram...
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    with an A cup. You have to be at least a B or a C." It is easier to push big breasts together to accent the hollow between them. Implants filled with sterile...
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    regions and accented similarly to the Neapolitan language. Italian and other European immigrants influenced Lunfardo—the regional slang—permeating the...
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    the slang expression '23 skidoo' comes from because the police would come and give the voyeurs the 23 skidoo to tell them to get out of the area." The...
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    English-speakers use Maritime English. Spoken within the Greater Toronto Area, Toronto slang is the nuanced, multicultural English spoken in the city. This dialect...
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    suggested shooting immigrants in May, Trump made a joke". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409. Retrieved August 18, 2022...
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  • University of Chicago Press Baratz, Joan C.; Shuy, Roger, eds. (1969), Teaching Black Children to Read, Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics Baugh...
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  • Army Music School at Fort Jay is moved to the Army War College in Washington, D.C. Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's Shuffle Along is an influential work...
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    in 1925, African American dance terms began to enter mainstream American slang. Terms like "jazzin' it", "goose bumps", "in the groove", and "swing" began...
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    dance, Miami bass, post-disco, Chicago house, Los Angeles hardcore and Washington, D.C. Go-go developed during this period, with only Miami bass achieving...
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