Word: dialectic
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...said in an interview yesterday he was not “equating Kuumba with Ebonics,” but said he wished the singers had made their guest performance at Monday’s lecture on Ebonics. A question had arisen in the prior class about grammar in the dialect and when Vaux asked if any of the students in the class were “native speakers of Ebonics,” no one volunteered...
...strangest thing about it is, we've been here before. It all started with a little-known Oxford professor whose specialty was the West Midland dialect of Middle English. Beginning with The Hobbit, a story he invented in the early 1930s to amuse his children, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's novels first became merely popular and then turned into a phenomenon. When a pirate paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings was published in the U.S. in 1965, it and other versions sold more than a million copies within a year. GANDALF FOR PRESIDENT buttons appeared on wide late...
...addition to the dialect workshop, there were lessons provided in singing and stage movement...
...really liked the dialect thing. I didn’t think it would be so easy to change from one accent to another,” Nate said...
...ONLY THE LONELY Phu Tork means "lonely mountain" in the northeast's Isaan dialect, but since a stairway was finished in 1974, the steady flow of tourists means you'll never be alone at its monastery. Its seven stories provide spectacular views of Nong Khai province's Bung Kan district. At the top of the mountain is a slightly spooky forest, where, if local lore is to be believed, you might be joined by otherworldly company...