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	English English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		English English is a term that has been applied to the English language as spoken in England.
		The four major divisions are normally classified as Southern English dialects, Midlands English dialects, and Northern English dialects, and Scottish English and the closely related dialects of Scots and Ulster Scots (varieties of Scots spoken in Ulster).
		Until recently, RP English was widely believed to be more educated than other accents and was referred to as the King's (or Queen's) English, or even "BBC English" (due to the fact that in the early years of broadcasting it was very rare to hear any other dialects on the BBC).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_English (2409 words)

	Learn more about Distinguishing accents in English in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Non-native speakers of the English language tend to carry the intonation, accent or pronunciation from their mother tongue into their English speech.
		Australian English on the other hand has turned most of the tense vowels into diphthongs, and turned some of what are diphthongs in Received Pronunciation into long vowels, thus replacing the tense-lax distinction (one of quality) with a long-short distinction (one of quantity).
		In case anyone is wondering, the standard American English accent is the neutral dialect spoken by TV network announcers and typical of educated speech in the Upper Midwest, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul and Philadelphia.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /d/di/distinguishing_accents_in_english.html (2479 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Midlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"The Midlands" (with a capital M) usually means the English Midlands, an area generally considered to include the counties of Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands and Worcestershire.
		To the east, the South Midlands is an area identified by the government for development.
		The Midlands of England are generally considered to include the counties of Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, the West Midlands and Worcestershire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Midlands (457 words)

	Red Kites introduced to the English Midlands
		A further 20 birds were released in the Midlands in 1997, ten from the southern England population and ten from Segovia in central Spain.
		No further birds were released in the Midlands this year and it is believed that the 70 birds released between 1995 and 1998, together with wild-fledged young, should be sufficient to establish a population able to increase naturally.
		The total Midlands population as of October 1999 is estimated at 60 birds.
	www.gigrin.co.uk /kites-midlands.html (1090 words)

	English midlands
		Following the disruption to monitoring activity during the 2001 breeding season, as a result of foot and mouth restrictions, the 2002 season was eagerly awaited.
		Despite these setbacks there was a very encouraging increase in the Midlands population with a total of 23 breeding pairs located, eight more than the estimate of 15 pairs in 2001.
		English Nature has recently published a detailed report (English Nature Research Report 451) describing work on the reintroduction programme in England and the ecology of the re-established breeding population in the Midlands.
	www.gigrin.co.uk /w/outsidewales/midlands1.html (425 words)

	Goitre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Goitre was previously common in many areas that were deficient in iodine in the soil.
		(For example, in the English Midlands, the condition was known as Derbyshire Neck).
		The condition now is practically absent in affluent nations, where table salt is supplemented with iodine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goitre (322 words)

	English Midlands articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		English Language Learners Accelerate Progress of your English Language Learners.
		English literature ENGLISH LITERATURE [English literature] literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British Isles; it was during the 15th cent.
		Pearl, The PEARL, THE [Pearl, The] one of four Middle English alliterative poems, all contained in a manuscript of c.1400, composed in the West Midland dialect, almost certainly by the same anonymous author, who flourished c.1370-1390.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=English+Midlands (465 words)

	Encyclopedia: Midlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nottingham is a city and county town of Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England.
		Derby (pronounced dar-bee) is a city in the East Midlands of England.
		The South Midlands and Milton Keynes area The South Midlands is an area of England.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Midlands (2120 words)

	ENGLISH NATURE - Regional Information
		We are building partnership working with the Regional Development Agency, Advantage West Midlands, through joint promotion of the Environmental Economy of the West Midlands and by advising on the environmental sustainability of AWM targeted programmes such as the Marches Rural Regeneration Zone.
		Through our participation on the West Midlands Regional Rural Affairs Forum we seek to initiate the significant improvements in the quality of the region’s countryside and biodiversity that are necessary to bring about a sustained recovery of the rural economy and an improved quality of life for the rural communities of the West Midlands.
		English Nature is a lead partner in several major environmental projects that are bringing social and economic benefits to communities in the West Midlands Region (e.g Tomorrow’s Heathland Heritage projects in Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Birmingham and the Shropshire Hills, Severn and Avon Vales Wetland Partnership, Central Rivers Project in Staffordshire).
	www.english-nature.org.uk /Maps/region2.asp?reg=5 (239 words)

	Midlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The midlands of a territory are its central
		"The Midlands " (with a capital M) usually means the English Midlands an area generally considered to the counties of Derbyshire Herefordshire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Rutland Shropshire Staffordshire Warwickshire the West Midlands and Worcestershire.
		Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire are usually nowadays considered to be of the Midlands albeit at the far edge.
	www.freeglossary.com /English_Midlands (426 words)

	Identify the English accent you most naturally speak with.
		English - Northern English/Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the northeast English
		It leans towards Midlands English I think (thanks to my mum) but with Yorkshire elements in there too (thanks to where I was born and raised).
		Is that Midlands as in a Dudloi or Burmeengum accent or Midlands as in a Lesstah or No'inggum accent
	surveycentral.org /?x&V=19270&ReSort=1 (2058 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing OldMidEng
		You have reached the Middle English language file which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Middle English is generally dated from 1100-1500 A.D. Middle English may be divided into Northern Middle English, West Midlands, East Midlands, and Southern Middle English.
		The dialect of London, on the border between the Southern and Midlands dialects, is the one that eventually developed into Modern English.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/oemidenh.htm (2037 words)

	The 1951 Festival of Britain in Birmingham and the English Midlands
		The 1951 Festival of Britain in Birmingham and the English Midlands
		However this article is intended to focus on what happened during 1951 in Birmingham and the Midlands.
		The Midlands motor industry in particular was well represented with the latest cars from Birmingham's "Austin Motor Company" and "singer Motors" ; the world's first experimental gas turbine car was displayed by "Rover Company", Solihull.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/1851/packer1.html (904 words)

	Notes
		Roughly, the two syntactic dialects at issue were found in the North and in the (North)east Midlands, on the one hand, and the South and (South)west Midlands on the other.
		The Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English is a syntactically annotated and somewhat extended version of the prose Middle English section of the Helsinki Corpus of English Texts originally assembled under the direction of Matti Rissanen at the University of Helsinki (see Kytö 1993).
		Evidence for the phonetic weakness of the endings appears in the phonologically unmotivated syncope of the vowel in the endings, though this syncope is characteristic of the southern (West Saxon and Kentish) dialects of Old English and occurs only rarely in Mercian and Northumbrian (Brunner 1965).
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~kroch/omev2-html/node18.html (1761 words)

	BBC - History - Ancient - Vikings and the English language
		East Midlands English was important because as a dialect from the centre of the country, bridging the gap between north and south, it was intelligible to the most people.
		Given that the East Midlands dialect itself was, in origin, a mixture of English and Scandinavian (with French thrown in for good measure), the impact of the Viking invasions remains very much with us today.
		We still speak a version of English that was born on the borders of Mercia and Danelaw.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/lj/conquestlj/legacy_05.shtml?site=history_vikings (329 words)

	Luddites and Luddism Interpretation -- Kevin Binfield -- Murray State University
		First, by its origin in the seventeenth century and by its extension during the period of Nottingham Luddism, the Charter and its derivative discourses were English nationalistic documents.
		Founded to preserve an English industry, the Charter perhaps tempered any revolutionary fervor which might otherwise have pulled Midlands Luddism outside of its nationalistic and legal-regulatory bounds.
		Throughout much of its course, Midlands Luddism based its resistance to machinery upon legal dispensations and the Charter of their trade and devised a system of regulation which had effects both inside and outside of the Trade, upon the larger culture as a whole.
	campus.murraystate.edu /academic/faculty/kevin.binfield/Luddites/LudditeInterpretations.htm (1962 words)

	GNN - Government News Network
		English Heritage is celebrating the contribution the traditional pub makes to our historic environment, by the launch of a new book on historic pubs, Licensed to Sell, but warns admirers to remain vigilant against the sort of refurbishment that spoiled many pub interiors in the 1970s.
		Licensed to Sell, published by English Heritage, says the fashion for "gutting" pubs, often reopening them under a new name, has meant that only a couple of hundred pub interiors across Britain can be said to have any historic value.
		Licensed to Sell was launched by English Heritage commissioner Bill Bryson, who spent a lot of time in pubs while working on his own book Notes from a Small Island.
	www.gnn.gov.uk /content/detail.asp?NewsAreaID=2&ReleaseID=144949 (924 words)

	Midlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The England Under-16 selectors have included 14 players from the Midlands in an 80-strong training squad for a team development camp at Hartpury College in...
		Midlands prosecutor Barney Giese makes unusual party switch
		A shootout between cash-heist gunmen and police in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands saw the suspects flee after they robbed a post office early on Thursday morning...
	www.wikiverse.org /midlands (344 words)

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		SMART GROWTH Midlands Way challenges the East and West Midlands - and the national government — to create the conditions that will enable both regions to meet global competitive challenges Smart Growth also needs to be placed within the context of the variety of strategies in each region, including regional economic strategies.
		Working in partnership to unlock innovative thinking which are deliverable against our SMART GROWTH Midlands Way Vision: The Partnership The partnership has been led by Advantage West Midlands and East Midlands Development Agency with valuable engagement from the Assemblies, key local authorities and Government Offices in the development of this initiative.
		We are here to drive forward the engines of economic growth across the English Midlands, nurturing and re-igniting the indigenous sparks of innovation, enterprise and creativity, to accelerate the evolution and delivery of sustainable communities fit for the 21st century.
	www.emda.org.uk /midlandsway/mwaydocs/SmartGrowthJan.doc (750 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Hammering Midlands metal bashers
		The West Midlands is the heartland of the UK's motor industry, with four volume car makers churning out one third of the UK's vehicle production - Peugeot, Jaguar, Land Rover and MG Rover.
		But the rewards are potentially high as the market in medical equipment is growing at 5% a year, partly due to more NHS spending.
		It is a strategy encouraged by Medilink UK, a quango with 307 member firms in the West Midlands.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/4316529.stm (2162 words)

	SMART Growth: The Midlands Way
		The Midlands RDAs (emda and AWM), working with the Assemblies and Government Office's in both regions, as well as the ODPM, are exploring the potential for a Midlands specific Sustainable Communities Plan (SCP) initiative.
		The emphasis is on making stronger connections and linkages between the regions based around common issues and opportunities, and to work to achieve more together than the regions can achieve alone.
		‘to drive forward the engines of economic growth across the English Midlands, nurturing and re-igniting the indigenous sparks of innovation, enterprise and creativity, to accelerate the evolution and delivery of sustainable communities for the 21st century’.
	www.wmita.co.uk /news/SMARTGrowthTheMidlandsWay (393 words)

	Midlands - England TravelPuppy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The English Midlands cover a great swathe of the country south of the Humber Estuary and from the Welsh border in the west to the fringes of the Southeast.
		Canals criss-cross much of the Midlands, and these former industrial supply routes are nowadays an important tourism resource, offering a relaxed way to enjoy the countryside from hired cruisers and narrowboats.
		Lincolnshire, the largest county in the East Midlands and the only one with a coastline, has several seaside resorts, notably Mablethorpe and Skegness, both of which are towns with good sunshine records.
	travelpuppy.com /england/midlands-england.htm (2467 words)

	ENGLISH NATURE - About Us
		The West Midlands Region is a region of dramatic and often sharp, contrasts.
		High density, urban populations occur in and around the major conurbations.
		For more information on English Nature's work at a regional level, please click here.
	www.english-nature.org.uk /maps/region.asp?Reg=5 (183 words)

	Stevens & Williams Glass from the Glass Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Stevens & Williams Ltd. were located in Brierley Hill, near Stourbridge in the English Midlands.
		A strong case can be made that they have existed for over 360 years if we accept that there have been changes of ownership and moving to nearby premises (never very far).
		Throughout its history, from the earliest records until the present day (2004), the company made traditional cut crystal glass of the highest quality alongside their other designs.
	www.glassencyclopedia.com /stevensglass.html (1198 words)

	GB Airports 2001 - East Midlands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		East Midlands is the eleventh busiest airport in Great Britain, as it's name suggests, it is situated in the English "Midlands" close to the cities of Derby, Nottingham and Leicester.
		Due to it's central location, East Midlands is one of the biggest cargo centers in the UK and is home to DHL (who have a new large complex at the western end of the airport) and UPS.
		East Midlands is home to the British Midlands airline and their offices and hangars dominate a large part of the airport.
	www.gbairports.co.uk /gb01/airports/ema/ema01.htm (228 words)

	Talk:Midlands - Wikitravel
		In general usage in the UK it would be called The Midlands; in more international usage The English Midlands.
		Yup, that probably is better; English Midlands is putting the disambiguator first, isn't it.
		In which case I'll name the results West Midlands (England) and East Midlands (England).
	www.wikitravel.org /en/article/Talk:English_Midlands (231 words)

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