单词 | dominican english |
释义 | Dominican Englishn.adj. A. n. The English language as spoken or written on the island of Dominica or by Dominicans. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Caribbean English > varieties of Jamaican English1880 Barbadian English1890 Jamaican1924 Bahamian English1952 Dominican English1955 Trinidadian English1959 Guyanese English1967 Kittitian1973 Antiguan English1978 1955 Word (Linguistic Circle N.Y.) Apr. 51 The most noticeable and confusing feature of Dominican English is its frequent failure to distinguish between ‘long’ (diphthongized) and ‘short’ vowels in checked syllables. 2008 R. L. Sharman & C. H. Sharman Nightshift NYC xviii. 219 ‘Anyone on the streets at 3 or 4 in the morning is not regular,’ she continues, her words tumbling out in a lyrical Dominican English. B. adj. Of or relating to the English language as spoken or written on the island of Dominica or by Dominicans. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > of varieties of English > Caribbean English Jamaican English1901 Bahamian English1952 Dominican English1955 Barbadian English1958 Trinidadian English1964 Guyanese English1968 Caribbean English1970 1955 Word (Linguistic Circle N.Y.) Apr. 52 The Dominican English confusion of park with pack. 2010 Caribbean Q. 56 63 The Dominican English personal pronouns make the same distinctions between subject and object that are to be found in internationally accepted Standard English. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1955 |
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