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 Australian English Summary
English is the language of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), even though it is not the first language of any of the member countries.
English will doubtless continue to be the language Asians use to represent their personal aspirations and public policies in the international workplace, the global media, and for Internet communication.
The so-called "Americanisation" of Australian English — signified by the borrowing of words, terms, and usages from North American English — began during the goldrushes, and was accelerated by a massive influx of United States military personnel during World War II.
www.bookrags.com /Australian_English   (3041 words)

  
 MYSTIC WOMEN - TV Series Episode Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
East Anglia, a region long known for its religious fervour and non-conformity, was home to two of the most famous mystic women.
This East Anglian English mystic was an anchoress, a woman who had herself enclosed in a brick addition to a church for life, in order to concentrate on her relationship to God.
An East Anglian business woman and mother, in her 40s after the birth of her 14th child she had a vision of Christ and decided to become celibate, devoting herself to her 'true' husband, Jesus Christ, and travelling throughout Europe and the Holy Land in a spiritual quest.
mw.mcmaster.ca /tvseries/tvguide.html   (1449 words)

  
 Kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons - East Anglia
The kingdom of the East Angles was founded in circa AD 575 as a result of the uniting of the North and South Folk (still remembered today in the Norfolk and Suffolk regions of East Anglia).
Heavily wooded country lying along the northern border of the East Seaxe kingdom became a political frontier between the two kingdoms, as well as with the Middil Engle.
The Danish Kingdom of East Anglia is founded to exist alongside the similarly-formed Scandinavian Kingdom of York.
www.history.kessler-web.co.uk /KingListsBritain/EnglandEastAnglia.htm   (745 words)

  
 East Anglian English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
East Anglian English is a dialect of English spoken in East Anglia.
This easternmost area of England was probably home to the first-ever form of language which can be called English.
East Anglian English has had a very considerable input into the formation of Standard English, and contributed importantly to the development of American English and (to a lesser extent) Southern Hemisphere Englishes; it has also experienced multilingualism on a remarkable scale.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Anglian_English   (194 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 12.3151: Fisiak & Trudgill, East Anglian English
He argues that place-names with the element Strat- developed from Saxon ae as opposed to Anglian e and suggest that, whilst both Angles and Saxons invaded from the Wash, 'the Angles who turned east and settled in East Anglia were intermingled with Saxons and...the latter are behind the OE ae forms' (68).
Concentrating on two syntactic features, relative markers and the stereotypically East Anglian that anaphora (as in That rained yesterday), she demonstrates that, whilst the latter had disappeared by 1991, the favoured relative marker in 1991 as in the SED sample was still what.
She is the author of 'English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence's "Grand Repository of the English Language" (1775)', Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1999.
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/12/12-3151.html   (3055 words)

  
 Matheliende Volume 2, Number 1
Most of these homilies were written in "plain English; so that our message might the more readily reach the hearts of those who read or hear, to the profit of the souls of those who cannot be taught in any other tongue than that to which they were born" (CH I, p.1, trans.
Although in the context of a royal burial the 37 coins may not be an indication of great wealth, each coin seems to have been selected from a different mint, suggesting a royal treasury, as well as trade with Gaul, probably in the form of slaves.
The rulers of East Anglia in the 7th century were undoubtedly warrior kings, but as we see from the finds at Sutton Hoo, they exhibited a desire to add credence to their royal claims through something other than military might.
www.english.uga.edu /~mathelie/mathii1.html   (3488 words)

  
 East Anglian English, 0859915719, £60.00/$105.00, 280pp, 2001
East Anglia - the easternmost area of England - was probably home to the first-ever form of language which can be called English.
Professor JACEK FISIAK teaches in the Department of English at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland; Professor PETER TRUDGILL is Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg.
Chapters in the Social History of East Anglian English: The Case of the Third-Person Singular (with Helena Raumolin-Brunberg and Peter Trudgill)
www.boydell.co.uk /59915719.HTM   (465 words)

  
 Norfolk England Dialect Orthography
Traditional dialects of East Anglian English, unlike most other accents of the language, preserved the Middle English distinction between monophthongal a´ and oÉ´, on the one hand, and diphthongal ai and ou, on the other (see Trudgill 1974): daze /de:z/ nose /nu:z/ days /dæiz/ knows /näuz/.
The English of the county of Norfolk has two close rounded vowels, as opposed to the one of most English accents.
Hughes, A. Trudgill (1966) English accents and dialects: an inytroduction of varieties of English in the British Isles.
www.norfolkdialect.com /trudgill.html   (2168 words)

  
 East Anglia Scenes: East Anglia Scenes
East Anglia Scenes is a website for the landscape photography of Ian Flindt and Sue Flindt, who moved to the region from Hampshire 6 years ago.
Most of Ian and Sue's photographs are a celebration of the idiosyncratic inland and coastal landscapes of the English East Anglian counties of Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, although - as you will see from the galleries - they do occasionally venture a little further afield.
Please feel free to contact Ian and Sue Flindt at East Anglia Scenes if you would like further information either on the subjects featured on the website, or on the photographs themselves.
eastangliascenes.com /index.html   (218 words)

  
 Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of human Y-chromosome microsatellites provides evidence of biased mutation -- Cooper ...
DNA samples were 174 East Anglians, 23 Nigerians, and 15 Sardinians as described (4) with the addition of 104 South African
The posterior probability density for the bias of the individual loci of the East Anglians and South Africans (Table 1, Fig.
East Anglian data set, possibly as a result of population expansion.
www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/96/21/11916   (3075 words)

  
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A variety of vines are cultivated in East Anglia to produce award-winning English Wines.
Wine writer Oz Clarke said of East Anglia in Webster's Wine Guide: "This is one area which has definitely begun to develop a regional style".
East Anglian wines do well in national and international competitions.
www.eastanglianwines.co.uk   (306 words)

  
 English Department, University of Fribourg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Peter Trudgill is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences and of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Acadmey for Swedish Folk Culture; and he has an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
English accents and dialects: an introduction to social and regional varieties of British English [with A. Hughes].
English dialects: studies in grammatical variation [editor with J.K. Chambers].
www.unifr.ch /das/staff/trudgill.htm   (244 words)

  
 Moving Toward Middle English
The population in the northeast continued to speak English, but it was an English heavily inflected by Norse vocabulary and pronunciation.
The complicated grammatical relations that were expressed in Old English by means of the dative and accusative cases, and by the many forms of verbs are replaced in Middle English, gradually, with constructions that involve prepositions, pronouns, and modal verbs.
We still today have the Old English genitive in many words (we now call it the "possessive": the form dog's for "of the dog"; but the apostrophe here doesn't mean that anything has been "left out," as it does in contractions like doesn't).
www.uta.edu /english/tim/courses/4301w99/tomid.html   (797 words)

  
 ebonics translater page - ebonics translater
In certain African tribal groups, such as those in east Cameroon, there are varieties of Black English that show strong resemblances to the creole dialects in the U.S. documented during this period.
Furthermore, the differences between modern AAVE and Standard English are nowhere near as great as those between French and the Haitian Creole language, the latter of which is considered a separate language.
and to facilitate their acquisition and mastery of English language skills." Teachers were encouraged to recognize that the "errors" in standard American English that their students made were not the result of lack of intelligence or effort, and indeed were not errors at all but instead features of a grammatically distinct form of English.
www.theramonitor.com /ebonics_translater.html   (3476 words)

  
 medieval imaginations: medieval england
Many East Anglian churches had magnificent timber roofs decorated with carvings of winged angels - an intimation of heaven above - and the stone font, at which infants were baptised into membership of the church, might be carved on seven sides with representations of the seven sacraments.
The greater value of images is in helping us understand what the Mystery playwrights could take as read in their audience's knowledge of the scenes they were dramatizing.
There is an emphasis on 14th- and 15th-century English material, but earlier images are included for comparative purposes, as are some French and Flemish items.
www.english.cam.ac.uk /mi-sampler/medieval_england.htm   (690 words)

  
 Dialects of English
Highland English is pronounced in a lilting fashion with pure vowels.
English was imposed upon the Irish, but they have made it their own and have contributed some of our finest literature.
As with the English of the Scottish Highlands, the English of the west coast of Ireland, where Gaelic is still spoken, is lilting, with pure vowels.
www.ship.edu /~cgboeree/dialectsofenglish.html   (3577 words)

  
 UEA, Postgraduate Unit, Late Medieval Drama: Spectacle and Ceremony (spring 2006)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This module focuses on the drama of the later Middle Ages, with a particular interest in East Anglian materials, exploring medieval conceptions and deployments of drama.
The course begins with the East Anglian cycle plays, N-Town and the largely lost Norwich cycle.
Questions asked will include: whether the East Anglian cycle drama is distinct from the northern form; how audiences are addressed and constructed; how the Biblical past is imagined and staged.
www.uea.ac.uk /eas/teaching/pgunits/latemedievaldrama06.shtml   (563 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 11.2476: English Language/Linguistics
It first presents an annotated bibliography arranged alphabetically by author's name and date of publication; the annotations include notes on the contents and approach of each article, cross-references to related work, and references to reviews.
The articles, by leading scholars in the field, cover all aspects of the English of East Anglia from its beginnings to the present day; topics include place names, non-standard grammar, dialect phonology, dialect contact, language contact, and a host of other issues of descriptive, theoretical, historical and sociolinguistic interest and importance.
Professor JACEK FISIAKteaches in the Department of English at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland; Professor PETER TRUDGILL is Chair of English Linguistics at the University of Fribourg.
www.linguistlist.org /issues/11/11-2476.html   (334 words)

  
 Tradtional Music Day
Stepdancing is a lively informal version of tap dancing, once common around the country, which survived in a few isolated areas of the country and is now attracting a lot of interest from younger people.
Special day tickets are available in advance from the East Anglian Traditional Music Trust, which give access to all events, space permitting.
The East Anglian Traditional Music Trust is supported by Suffolk County Council Arts for All and Mid Suffolk District Council.
www.eastanglianlife.org.uk /musicday.html   (435 words)

  
 East Anglian Writers: Susanna Clarke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
She was educated at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto.
In 1990 she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company.
She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea.
www.eastanglianwriters.org.uk /profiles/SusannaClarke.htm   (284 words)

  
 Davidson College English | Faculty | Gail Gibson
Professor Gibson taught for eight years at Princeton University before coming to Davidson College in 1983, where she is now the William R. Kenan, Jr.
She is the author of The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages (Chicago, 1989) and of other studies of medieval drama, literature, visual art, and spirituality.
She is the medieval editor of the five-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (2006) and is presently completing Childbed Mysteries, a book about late-medieval childbirth as theater, ritual, and social performance.
www.davidson.edu /academic/english/faculty/gibson.html   (173 words)

  
 Identity Of English Midlands
The English Midlands are geographically (in my mind) an area of England comprising an arc of places between a hundred and a hundred and two hundred miles from London, and which are also more north of London than west of it.
The East Midlands are actually north-east of the west midlands.
The status of Lincoln and Lincolnshire is uncertain, but I think it makes sense to regard Lindsey and Kesteven (two areas of lincolnshire) as East Midland, and Holland (another division of lincolnshire, not the nation) as East Anglian.
c2.com /cgi/wiki?IdentityOfEnglishMidlands   (1127 words)

  
 OME: Lives of Pre-Industrial Workers
One was by the regions where they were built.
Finally, New England’s iron works grew out of East Anglian English roots and generally used free labor.
Another factor was whether the ironmasters involved were experienced, well financed and knew what they were doing as opposed to ironworks set up by inexperienced, poorly financed opportunists.
www.engr.psu.edu /MTAH/essays/ome/caution.html   (437 words)

  
 Bibliography
The bibliography is a work in progress, which I update whenever I can, and it may not list articles or books on all the texts in the course.
Scott Kleinman, "The Legend of Havelok the Dane and the Historiography of East Anglia." Forthcoming in Studies in Philology 100 (2003).
[Argues that the story developed and was re-worked over time due to changing interpretations of East Anglian and English history.
www.csun.edu /~sk36711/WWW/engl630/bibliography.htm   (624 words)

  
 CEEC: Forthcoming publications
In Kastovsky, Dieter and Arthur Mettinger (eds.) The History of English in a Social Context.
'Chapters in the social history of East Anglian English: The case of the third-person singular'.
In Fisiak, Jacek and Peter Trudgill (eds.) History of East Anglian English.
www.helsinki.fi /hum/eng/doe/projects/ceec/forthcom.htm   (233 words)

  
 North dakotan accent | Antimoon Forum
hey i came to know that non native english speakers can easily differentiate between any american accent and north dakotan accent..
This region extends from eastern Washington State all the way to Michigan and upstate New York (but not Maine which is in a class by itself).
According to some, it is East Anglian English in origin and shows the East Anglian tendency to lengthen vowel sounds.
www.antimoon.com /forum/t921.htm   (303 words)

  
 English Dialects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This is a more complete listing of English dialects, although by no means comprehensive.
North Midlands English (thin swath from Nebraska to Ohio)
South Midlands English (thin swath from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania)
www.ruf.rice.edu /~kemmer/Words04/usage/dialects.html   (69 words)

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