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 | | Turtles, iguanas, rattlesnakes, and lizards are found throughout the country. | | | The country's principal natural resource is the aluminum ore bauxite, but significant deposits of coal, petroleum, natural gas, and uranium also exist. | | | The mineral resources of the country are extensive, including emeralds, petroleum and natural gas, coal, and gold. |
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http://faculty.caldwell.edu/borourke/SUMMARIES.HTM
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| | English Dialects |
| | Whether the limits of these dialects were always the same from the earliest times, we cannot tell; probably not, when the unsettled state of the country is considered, in the days when repeated invasions of the Danes and Norsemen necessitated constant efforts to repel them. | | | The Project Gutenberg EBook of English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day, by Walter W. Skeat This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. | | | There are some excellent remarks upon the vocalism of the Kentish dialect in Middle English by W. Heuser, in the German periodical entitled Anglia, vol xvii pp. |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/7/5/15755/15755-h/15755-h.htm
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| | West Ham United F.C. West Hamlin, West Virginia | | | West Bromwich Albion F.C. West Bromwich West by-election, 2000 | | | West Farms Square-East Tremont Avenue (New York Subway) |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/w/we/index.html
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Cote d'Ivoire |
| | Rebel forces claimed the northern half of the country, and in January 2003 were granted ministerial positions in a unity government under the auspices of the Linas-Marcoussis Peace Accord. | | | Several thousand French and West African troops remain in Cote d'Ivoire to maintain peace and facilitate the disarmament, demobilization, and rehabilitation process. | | | Political turmoil damaged the economy in 2005, with fear among Ivorians spreading, foreign investment shriveling, French businesses and expats fleeing, travel within the country falling, and criminal elements that traffic in weapons and diamonds gaining ground. |
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http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iv.html
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| | Dialects |
| | Urban dialects are very intelligible in the rest of the Arab world, especially those of Western Arabia. | | | There are many Arabic dialects, it is almost impossible to include a full account since the vernacular doesn't only differ from country to country but also between settings (urban/rural/bedwin). | | | Though the language may differ substantially from country to country, the main features are similar. |
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http://www.egyptmad.com/kimo_the_maniac/Dialects.htm
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| | American Dialects |
| | This fact should be compared to the divergence of English from continental dialects of West Germanic in the early Middle Ages, or to the profound changes in English between 1100 and 1300. | | | are remarkably similar in 1998--I say "remarkably" since the two countries have been politically independent of each other for well over 200 years and are separated by an ocean. | | | Keep in mind, of course, that the status of English in America is a politically volatile issue; see most recently this |
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http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/courses/4301w98/nov11.html
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| | West Country dialects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In more recent times, West Country dialects have been treated with some derision, which has led many local speakers to abandon them or water them down. | | | The West Country dialects, or West Country accents, are generic terms applied to any of several English dialects or accents used by much of the indigenous population of the southwestern part of England, the area popularly known as the West Country. | | | The West Country dialects derive not from a corrupted form of modern English, but reflect the historical origins of the English language and its historical pronunciation, in particular Late West Saxon, which formed one of the earliest English language standards. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Country_Accent
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| | Somerset - encyclopedia article about Somerset. |
| | It is in the south-west of the United Kingdom, and covers the area known as the West Country and much of the historical area of Wessex, although omitting Hampshire. | | | West Somerset West Somerset is a local government district in Somerset, England. | | | South West England South West England is one of the regions of England. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Somerset
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| | Meanwhile, as the political importance of the West Country declined, the prestige of West Country dialects declined with it. | | | The lack of a traditional non-standard local dialect is presumably the source of the claim that the `purest' English is spoken at Inverness. | | | Before that, the prestige of the different dialects of English changed with the political fortunes of the region in which they were spoken. |
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http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~llsroach/fue/gok.htm
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| | West Java |
| | West Java has the easiest access to Jakarta being merely an enclave in this province. | | | Somewhat further out, west of Pangandaran, driving 23 km on the way to Parigi, lies Batu Hiu, meaning Shark's Rock, which is a coastal rock having the shape of a shark. | | | On the southwestern tip of West Java is a wildlife reserve of 51.000 hectares covering the Ujung Kulon peninsula and the nearby islands of Panaitan and Peucang. |
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http://www.indonesianmusic.com/west_java.htm
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| | Ethnologue report for Ireland |
| | Dialects: Munster-Leinster (Southern Irish), Connacht (Western Irish), Donegal (Ulster, Northern Irish). | | | Dialects: In 1816 British signs were brought in. | | | This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as: |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Ireland
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| | BBC - North East Wales Voices - Dialects |
| | I think that Wales and the UK have developed a lot of each other's sayings inadvertantly, now that people are able to move around the country more freely, due to better transportation and job prospects, than they had in the past. | | | I remember back in the late 50s or early 60s Denis Griffiths appearing on a TV current affair show.Once a week they had a panel of so called dialect experts try to guess where a persons accent was from and Denis with his broard Buckley accent, had them stumped. | | | Just as people from the holywell area used to say 'ynnai' at the end of a statement we used to say 'isn't it' which mutated to 'init' which then lost the 't' to become 'ini' |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/voices/pages/dialects.shtml
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| | Dialects of English |
| | Out west, there were also the influences of non-English speaking people, notably the original Spanish speaking populations and the immigrant Chinese (mostly Cantonese). | | | Dialects also varies slightly from east to west: In Natal (in western South Africa), /ai/ is pronounced /a:/, so that why is pronounced /wa:/. | | | As with the English of the Scottish Highlands, the English of the west coast of Ireland, where Gaelic is still spoken, is lilting, with pure vowels. |
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http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/dialectsofenglish.html
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| | Search for West Country Accent - WordIQ.com |
| | BBC Inside Out conducts an experiment to find out if the West Country accent has sex appeal... | | | Brizzle, Hereford and Worcester, you have the West Country accent. | | | West Country Accent (West Country Accent: the west country accent is a generic term applied to any of... |
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http://www.wordiq.com/web/west+country+accent.html
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| | Adam West |
| | Through case studies examined in this book, we also find that the Japanese media have a structural tendency to revise and cover up shameful episodes in the country's history (especially WWII atrocities), relentlessly smear nonconformists and reform advocates, and perpetuate the near-total social power of Japan's political and economic elites. | | | As might be expected from a pioneer of the western range, the cowboy "respected neither the dictionary nor usage," says Adams, "but employed his words in the manner that best suited him." And perhaps no other group has come up with a better collection of insults. | | | Clarence stole our hearts with his first adventure, "Clarence Goes Out West and Meets a Purple Horse." Now he and Smokey are off on another adventure and they have taken a dancing doggie along with them. |
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http://goldset.275mb.com/?p=adam+west
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| | English dialects - WordReference Forums |
| | Where my mum lives, they have a broad West country accent (like a farmer) and that's bad enough. | | | In the US there are some dialects, such as Gullah, spoken on the Carolina coast and islands, which are only part English, and can be understood by Americans with great difficulty. | | | I think dialect refers to the vocabulary of a group of people. |
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http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1463
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| | The American Dialect Homepage |
| | A new map has been added to this site, the Linguistic Geography of the Mainland United States, outlining the major dialect regions of the country. | | | American Dialect Web Links Over 180 links to vocabularies, pronunciation guides, and general articles dealing with regional dialects of the English language in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies. | | | Also, due to other pressures on my time and a somewhat reduced interest (read "nationalism") I have had to largely leave off maintaining the world English dialect links, and decided to concentrate on the North American varieties. |
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http://www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialhome.html
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| | Articles - Music of England |
| | The West Country is most noted for its Scrumpy and Western music, much of it fusing comical folk-style songs with affectionate parodies of more mainstream musical genres, delivered in the local West Country dialects. | | | Later in the decade, reggae influenced English country music due to the work of Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas, especially on their seminal Let's Polkasteady from 1987. | | | Shirley Collins is from Sussex and retains her local accent. |
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http://www.sterlingsilvercenter.com/articles/Music_of_England
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| | Accents and Dialects |
| | West Country - Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, 'Wessex' | | | American - Standard, General and variants, New York variants, East and West Coast, Southern States, Native American and Language | | | Andrew's range of accents and dialects continually grows more extensive. |
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http://www.andrewjack.com/accents.htm
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| | Faroese language and culture |
| | The Faroe Islands and the Internet: In his own words, Erhard Jacobsen from the Faroe Islands National Library describes this little known country and its relatively big strides into networking and Internet connectivity. | | | FROM WIKIPEDIA Faroese is a West Nordic or West Scandinavian language spoken by about 80,000 people in two main groups, about 48,000 in the Faroe Islands and about 25,000 in Denmark. | | | THE FAROE ISLANDS Language and culture The Faroese language is a Nordic language, closely related to Icelandic and to the dialects of Western Norway. |
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http://www.lonweb.org/link-faroese.htm
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| | "dear" & "deer" Antimoon Forum |
| | Old-fashioned varieties of Hiberno-English and the West Country dialects preserve the Early Modern English /eː//iː/ contrast, but it is rare in these accents nowadays. | | | Kirk, would you say that your /I/ in "deer" is the same sound you have in "pit", or is there any noticeable allophony? | | | Depends on just what North American English dialect one is speaking of, since a good number of dialects, such as mine and Kirk's, have monophthongized tense vowels, including /e/ and /o/, in most positions, with [eI] and [oU] just turning into relatively limited allophones of such. |
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http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t1078-0.htm
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| | High Country News -- August 18, 1997: Heard around the West |
| | High Country News is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the best news and information on issues affecting the American West. | | | To receive two free copies of the print edition of High Country News, click here. | | | The eNewsletter keeps you up-to-date on happenings in the West and at HCN. |
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http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=3581
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| | Dialinks |
| | Iatiku Newsletter - Ladin dialects and Rumantsch: a Recent Referendum | | | Italian Language (with a section in English "Italian Dialects") | | | Bill O'th Hoylus End - A 19th Century Yorkshire Dialect Poet |
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http://members.tripod.com/~rjschellen/Dialinks.htm
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| | West Country dialects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In more recent times, West Country dialects have been treated with some derision, which has led many local speakers to abandon them or water them down. | | | This may be a result of the strong seafaring tradition of the West Country, both legal and outlaw. | | | As previously stated, Brythonic languages have had a long term influence on the West Country dialects. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Country_accent
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| | Climate: The climate in the North of the country is subtropical on the rest of the territory it is desert-tropical with daily fluctuations of temperature. | | | It borders with Israel in the East, Sudan-in the south, Libya-in the West. | | | Shops: At private shops you can scrutinize items, find out their prices, quality, and the country it was made in, however this does not necessarily oblige the customer to do shopping. |
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http://www.jasuta.am/Egypt.htm
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| | Black Country - |
| | The Black Country is a loosely-defined area of conurbation to the north and west of Birmingham, and to the south and east of Wolverhampton in the English West Midlands, around the South Staffordshire coalfield. | | | The "capital" of the Black Country is generally considered to be Dudley, not Wolverhampton. | | | The bounds of the Black Country, however, are controversial, and the whole of Wolverhampton is included by some and none at all by others. |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Black_Country
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| | Country Profile |
| | The country’s population includes Semitic, Cushitic (Hamitic), Omotic and Niotic peoples, and a veritable melting pot of ancient Middle Eastern and African cultures. | | | This was made possible partly due to Ethiopia’s position as a symbol of independence and freedom in the African continent and partly due to the efforts of the country exerted over the years to bring about the desired unity among Africans. | | | It shares a long borderline in the West and Northwest with the Sudan, in the North with the Eritrea and in the South with Kenya, in the East and Southeast with Somalia and in the East with Djibouti. |
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http://www.ethiopia.ottawa.on.ca/Country.htm
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| | German Genealogy: Dialects |
| | West Erzgebirgish lies in front of the Hither Erzgebirgish (with strong features of slang) in the north in the region, while in the west it borders on the Vogtlandish. | | | West Meissenish, on both sides of the lower Zwickauer Mulde around Röchlitz, occupies an intermediate position between North Meissenish and South Meissenish on one side and Altenburgish on the other side. | | | East of the upper course of the Pulsnitz and west of the so-called "New Lausitzian" spoken in the Sorbian region lies the small backwater territory of West Lausitzian around Pulsnitz and Kamenz. |
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http://www.genealogienetz.de/misc/dialect-e.html
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| | Country Evolves |
| | His "Back in the Saddle Again" was more than a radio theme; it invited listeners to join him in an escape to the romance and freedom of the West. | | | Traditional material continued to appear in country performances, but the ballads, folksongs, old-time hymns, and venerable fiddle tunes found there typically had been learned from earlier commercial recordings and radio broadcasts. | | | The former radio hillbilly entertainer, Gene Autry, for example, became the best-known country singer in the world through his metamorphosis after 1934 as Hollywood's Number One Singing Cowboy. |
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http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/SoundtrackForACentury/ie/story/count4.html
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| | Dialects of Middle English |
| | This dialect has left modern descendants in the working- class country dialects of the area. | | | The Southern dialect of Middle English was spoken in the area west of Sussex and south and southwest of the Thames. | | | In the 13th century this part of England, especially Norfolk and Suffolk, began to outstrip the rest of the country in prosperity and population because of the excellence of its agriculture, and — crucially — increasing numbers of well-to-do speakers of East-Midland began to move to London, bringing their dialect with them. |
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http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~dringe/CorpStuff/Thesis/Dialects.html
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