Accents and Dialects

Yes, it means a small boy in Irish English (or at least in Dublinese). That -een suffix is propably not that productive these days and it means small.

Indonesia has the second-largest multilingual population in the world, after Papua New Guinea. It has 726 languages, the most common being Indonesian, Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese and Minangkabau.

Most English words, such as 'nine,' can be spelled only one way.

Some Parisiens speak a local slang called Parigot

Bairns is the Scottish word for small children - nothing to do with grandmother.

The younger, the better. I'd say no older than 10 to 12.

Yes. Just put a glossary at the back.

It's best not to use a lot of dialect - it's confusing to read. Put in just a little at the beginning, to show what it sounds like, then just write the speech in plain English. The reader will remember the dialect and "say" it correctly in their heads.

Writing dialogue is not as hard as you're letting it seem. You have dialogue all the time -- it's called talking. If you honestly cannot think of what your characters are going to say to one another, you need to go take a break and go somewhere out in public. Sit somewhere in the middle of a crowd for one to two hours and just listen to people talking. Then, go home and write down some of the things you heard people saying. That's dialogue.

When you need to have your characters talk, just pretend it's you and a friend (or several friends), and have them say something you'd probably say in the same situation. Then imagine what your friends would say in reply, and go back and forth that way. As you become a better writer, your characters themselves will "tell" you what they want to say, because they become like real people to you.

English does not use any sort of accents on words in normal language. Foreign words that have been brought into the language will have the accents of their language of origin. Answer In British publishing it is not uncommon to print naïve to emphasise the pronunciation, similarly the name Zoë.

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Yes, the people from Wilmington do have a particular accent.

Americans tend to 'drop' their 'G' s very often and to have different pronunciation depending where in America they come from.

Of course he has an accent. Everyone has an accent. To Americans, he has a British accent. To British people, he speaks normally.

The first thing to point out is that English and British are synonymous. But living in Wales, he would probably acquire something of a Welsh lilt. Being bourne in London, he could have a definite hint of Londoner. Ultimately there is no exact categorization of accents. But if you need to call his accent something, London with a strain of Welsh would probably suffice.

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Yes he does

Johnny Depp! He's from Kentucky! (He can also do a great Scottish or Irish or something like that!) Johnny Deep! He was born in Kentucky! So he has the best accent! (He also does a wicked awesome Scottish accent!)

I think the closest Latin root would be processus, which means going forward.

By representing cultural areas by their most extreme and recognized forms. Southern Dialects with a broad grande pre-Civil war style. Bostonian and New Englanders with a very upper-class British-like plum-in-the-mouth style. Appalachians and other mountain folk with a yee-hah type hic style. Californians with a drawn-out hippie style. Etc.

Michael Collins was born in Cork, Ireland, and despite having lived in London and New York, one assumes he retained his Irish accent.

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Shrek has a very mild Scottish accent, possibly so that everybody can understand him.

The differences between British English and American English dialects have been widening since the first settlers arrived. Today's communications, however, will likely narrow the gap over time.

A High Estuary accent.