| 单词 | multicultural london english |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMulticultural London English Multicultural London English n. Linguistics a variety of English spoken mainly by young people in the multicultural neighbourhoods of inner-city London; abbreviated MLE.Though various linguistic influences are evident, that of Jamaican Creole is commonly highlighted, hence the popular name Jafaican (cf. Jafaican n. 2). Features of this variety of English have been noted in cities outside London. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English > English English north country1698 west country1711 Yorkshire1717 Kenticism1735 English English1783 cockney1812 Cockneyese1823 East Angliana1825 Somersetian1825 Northumbrian1845 Norfolk1863 Kentish1866 Doric1870 Kensingtonian1911 Mummerset1915 Geordie1928 Hoxtoniana1935 scouse1963 mockney1967 Kensington1968 Liverpudlian1985 Jafaican2006 MLE2006 Multicultural London English2006 2006 Evening Standard 10 Apr. 21/4 The playgrounds and housing estates of London are alive with the sound of an accent that sounds Jamaican as much as anything, with added flavours from West Africa and India... Teachers have dubbed the phenomenon Jafaican... Based on their preliminary findings, the academics are calling it ‘multicultural London English’. 2018 T. McArthur et al. Oxf. Compan. Eng. Lang. (ed. 2) 386/1 The number of speakers of Multicultural London English is now greater than the number of Cockney speakers. < as lemmas |
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