Word: dialects
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...anothor column will be found an account of the organization of the American Dialect Society. It is desirable that the attention of students be called to the field of work offered to them by this society. Every student who has come here from another section of the country has noticed that the pronunciation, or the usage of some words differs from that to which he has been accustomed, also, that he meets words which are entirely new to him. Such differences, their origin and history, as well as local peculiarities and dialects, where peculiarities have developed into dialects, will...
...study of dialect must always possess a peculiar interest to those interested in the development of spoken language. English, as spoken in America is not characterized by the strongly marked dialects which are observed in the speech of the people in the different parts of England, and yet, in the speech of Americans there exist differences, oftentimes as slight as the mere variation in the pronunciation of some words, which indicate the existence in a more or less advanced stage, of some development of distinct dialects in the spoken language of our country. The dialect stories which have been published...
...DIALECT SOCIETY.The meeting for organization of the Dialect Society will be held Wednesday, March 13, in Sever...
Professor Toy, of Cambridge, gave a scholarly paper on the Arabian dialect of Cairo, embodying the results of a study made of the subject during a residence in Egypt last winter. A very instructive paper was presented by Professor Frothingham, of Princeton, on Mohammedan education, whose most perfect developement is seen in the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries of our era. This development was largely due to impulses from without. The range of study was comprehensive and instruction was free. Professor Hall, of New York, gave an account of a Syriac manuscript containing a new text of the Traditions...
...meeting of Oriental Society this week at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor D. G. Lyon will speak on "Roman, Assyrian and Babylonian Royal Prayers," and "The Pantheon of Assurbanipal;" and Professor C. H. Toy, on "The Arabic Dialect of Cairo...