单词 | western american |
释义 | > as lemmasWestern American Western American adj. and n. = General American adj. and n. at general adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > American English > varieties of Midland1785 New England1839 Chicagoese1883 Bostonese1888 New Yorkese1888 Brooklynese1893 Western American1901 Manhattanese1908 Harlemese1928 southern1935 jive1938 Yinglish1951 lockjaw1965 Valley Girl1982 Valspeak1982 Valleyspeak1983 Yat1984 1901 Amer. Anthropologist 3 391 For this word an Algonquian (possibly through western American English) source suggests itself. 1919 G. P. Krapp Pronunc. of Standard Eng. in Amer. 147 If your own speech is of the Eastern American type, transcribe a passage illustrating it into Western American speech. 1959 L. M. Myers Guide to Amer. Eng. (ed. 2) ii. 30 Three major dialect areas have long been recognised in American English—New England, Western or General American, and Southern. Linguistic geographers now prefer the terms Northern, Midland, and Southern. 1991 J. Baxter in A. Brown Teaching Eng. Pronunc. i. iii. 54 He happened to play a tape on which the speaker used the western American pronunciation of ‘aunt’ with a front vowel. < as lemmas |
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