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 Liverpool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liverpool is governed by Liverpool City Council, one of five councils within the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and is one of England's core cities and its fifth most populous - 441,477 in 2002, with 1,362,026 in the Merseyside conurbation.
In 2001, Liverpool Airport, near Speke in the south of the city, was renamed Liverpool John Lennon Airport, in honour of the late Beatle John Lennon.
Liverpool · Maritime Greenwich · Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and  St. Margaret's · Saltaire · Stonehenge and Avebury · Studley Royal Park · Tower of London
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 Liverpool - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Northwest England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary.
Liverpool John Moores University is one of the polytechnics given university status in 1992 and is named after the owner of the Littlewoods retail group.
Liverpool once possessed a very integrated transport system, until the deregulation of bus and rail services, and only now have there been plans to build a light rail system, Merseytram, the first since the city's tram system was dismantled in the 1950s.
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 Accent: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The word accent in English is also understood to mean the pronunciation and speech patterns that are typical of a speech community; it also denotes the particular manner of uttered expression that lends a special shade of meaning, as when one speaks in harsh or gentle accents.
Accent, appearance, and ethnic stereotypes in New Zealand...of these studies have examined the combined influence of accent and appearance on evaluations.
Although accent refers strictly to pronunciation, in practice...dialect can usually be identified by the accent of its speakers as well as by distinctive...
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 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The strongest tendency to retain the accent is in words that are atypical of English morphology and therefore still perceived as slightly foreign.
Italics, with appropriate accents, are generally applied to foreign terms that are uncommonly used in or have not been assimilated into English: for example, adiós, coup d'état, crème brûlée, pièce de résistance, raison d'être, über (übermensch), vis-à-vis.
Written accents are also used occasionally in poetry and scripts for dramatic performances to indicate that a certain normally unstressed syllable in a word should be stressed for dramatic effect, or to keep with the meter of the poetry.
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 The Costume Gallery's Research Library Updates
These designs are from the European houses of Debenham & Freebody of London, England; George Henry Lee & Co.: Liverpool, England; and Ullmann & Strauss of Frankfort, Germany.
These designs are from the European houses of Jules Bister of Berlin, Germany, Emilia Bossi of Florence, Italy, Charles Drecoll of Vienna, Austria, Debenham & Freebody of London, England, De Gaspari, Rosa e Torta of Turin, Italy, George Henry Lee of Liverpool, England, and E. Felix of Paris, France.
Large oaks and magnolia trees accent the yards of these graceful beauties.
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 Welsh Names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A fight is on to keep a corner of Liverpool that has boasted Welsh street names for 125 years.
Streets with Welsh names could be wiped from Liverpool's map if regeneration plans go ahead.
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