YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein
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slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...
a mountain range, etc., that has served historically to keep two populations apart also serves to create differences in speech (R...
fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...
law began with the injustices incurred by the public due to the Industrial Revolution (France, Woeller and Mandel, 2005). Until 19...
This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...
any legitimate claim upon the land, the New World was not uninhabited and European settlers necessarily had to contend with and ad...
learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...
In eight pages this paper examines socialization and the stigma associated with suicide, adoption, interracial marriage, homosexua...
of enhancing British wealth(Johnson 2001). Therefore, the British Crown had issued an ultimatum, based on this document, that raw ...
The model also facilitated the a revision on the more traditional financial measures that had been used, for example the viewing o...
it is these influences and the way that the firm has responded that need to be assessed so that the effectiveness of exiting strat...
predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...
In five pages this historical text by Jill Lepore is analyzed in a consideration of how American identity was shaped by that long ...
This research paper/essay discusses how pidgin and Creole languages develop, emphasizing the influence that African Americans have...
the bare necessities were sufficient in the beginning. In Morrisons text he shows examples of various forms of connecting logs tog...
associated with bilingual education, evaluating what works and what does not, is not an easy task (Gilroy 50). Both supporters an...
In eight pages this paper examines how language development is influenced by culture and society in a consideration of its effects...
This paper consists of five pages and examines how Black English has damaged standard English's structure. Seven sources are cite...
This paper examines four different variations of the English language, ranging from Old English to current English. This eight pa...
In five pages this research paper offers a brief English versification history beginning with Beowulf's Old English and continuing...
The question for the study being discussed is: "How effective is the new ESL curriculum in helping student improve English languag...
Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...
This essay analyzes the meaning of Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B." Three pages n length, two sources are cited. ...
were able to teach through the medium of Welsh and Welsh cultural texts were promulgated....
Chinese and English wh movements are contrasted and compared in a paper consisting of ten pages....
that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...
are spelled. There are far more sounds in the English language than the twenty-six letters which make up our alphabet. As a resu...
and some of the verses were sung. It was explained to me later that the members of the congregation that perform this part of the ...
The teacher might use pictures or finger-puppets to help facilitate student comprehension. The disadvantage to this approach is th...
became so dependent on the Indians that they took to raiding them; the Algonquin chief, Powhatan, decided to starve them out, and ...