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| | Regional Patterns of American Speech. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | As creolization reflects the blending of languages and cultures, so slang, argot, and social dialects mark the activities of subcultures within communities, and these basic forms of English have steadily modified native speech. |
 | | Since a healthy language is always changing, the age and experience of its speakers are recorded by incipient, dominant, and recessive forms, as demonstrated in the vocabulary of automobiles: the recent gas-guzzler and SUV, the durable sedan and limousine, and the relics tin lizzie and roadster. |
 | | Education reinforces language trends with the spread of generalized patterns of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, but these are challenged by migrant accents in Chicago today just as they were in London 400 years ago. |
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