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... dialect change have been generated by two major forces . The first ma- jor force was the social change movements ( or upheavals - depending on where you comin from ) of the sixties , spearheaded by the 1954 Supreme Court school ...
... dialect change have been generated by two major forces . The first ma- jor force was the social change movements ( or upheavals - depending on where you comin from ) of the sixties , spearheaded by the 1954 Supreme Court school ...
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... dialects is both amusing and disturbing . Some people pay money to reduce their regional dialects to avoid stereotyping and sound more like Peter Jennings or Diane Sawyer . And , yet , dialect studies show that black and white Americans ...
... dialects is both amusing and disturbing . Some people pay money to reduce their regional dialects to avoid stereotyping and sound more like Peter Jennings or Diane Sawyer . And , yet , dialect studies show that black and white Americans ...
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... dialect of Chicago , for example , is purely North- ern inland . It came from western New England and Hartford , Conn . , and be- came the basis for what you hear now around Cleveland , Detroit and the Great Lakes . " By the time ...
... dialect of Chicago , for example , is purely North- ern inland . It came from western New England and Hartford , Conn . , and be- came the basis for what you hear now around Cleveland , Detroit and the Great Lakes . " By the time ...
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Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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