English+idiom

  • 31Pakistani English — Pakistani English, is the variety of the English language as it is spoken and otherwise used in Pakistan.HistoryAlthough British rule in South Asia lasted for almost two hundred years, the areas which comprise what is now Pakistan, were amongst… …

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  • 32Sri Lankan English — (SLE) is the English language as spoken in Sri Lanka.The earliest English speakers in present day Sri Lanka date back to the days of the British Empire, the era of Royal Navy dominance, and the British colonial presence in South Asia.An SLE… …

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  • 33Modernist poetry in English — is generally considered to have emerged in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists. In common with many other modernists, these poets wrote in reaction to the perceived excesses of Victorian poetry, with its… …

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  • 34Mid-Atlantic English — For the English language as it is spoken in the Mid Atlantic States, see New York dialect, New Jersey English, Philadelphia accent, and Baltimorese. Mid Atlantic English (sometimes called a Transatlantic accent) is a cultivated or acquired… …

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  • 35Northeast Pennsylvania English — is the local dialect of American English spoken in northeastern Pennsylvania, specifically in the Coal Region, which includes the cities of Hazleton, Pottsville, Wilkes Barre and Scranton. The Wyoming Valley falls right on the border between two… …

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  • 36Māori influence on New Zealand English — See also: List of English words of Māori origin A Kiwi on a 1898 New Zealand stamp. The bird, which is a national icon of New Zealand takes its name from the Māori language During the 19th century, New Zealand English gained many loanwords from… …

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  • 37Don't spill the beans (idiom) — For the game, see Don t Spill the Beans (game). Don t spill the beans is an English language idiom That means to inopportunely or accidentally reveal a secret. There are a number of folk etymology hypotheses for its origin, some attributing it to …

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  • 38Old English subjunctive — The subjunctive mood is a flexible grammatical instrument for expressing different gradients in thought when referring to events that are not stated as fact. It is still used frequently in such languages as French, German and Spanish, and also in …

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  • 39Hawaii Creole English — (HCE; auch Hawaii Pidgin English genannt) ist eine auf Hawaiʻi gesprochene Kreolsprache auf Basis des Englischen mit Lehnwörtern aus dem Hawaiischen und verschiedenen anderen europäischen wie asiatischen Sprachen. Die für dieses Idiom oftmals… …

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  • 40Black English — /blæk ˈɪŋglɪʃ/ (say blak ingglish) noun a dialect of English which converges on regional varieties of American English, but which is especially characterised by the pronunciation, lexis, and idiom typical of many African Americans. Also, African… …