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1Accent (linguistics) — In linguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation of a language. Accents can be confused with dialects which are varieties of language differing in vocabulary and syntax as well as pronunciation. Dialects are usually spoken by a group united …
2accent — [[t]æ̱ks(ə)nt[/t]] accents 1) N COUNT Someone who speaks with a particular accent pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or social class they come from. He had developed a slight American accent …
3Short-lived recurring characters on Saturday Night Live — The following is a series of short write ups on recurring sketches that appeared four or fewer times on Saturday Night Live . Some characters who fit into this category do not appear here because they fit better into one of the other categories… …
4Accent québécois — Français québécois  Ne pas confondre avec le français acadien, une autre variété du français parlée au Canada.  Pour l’article homonyme, voir Québécois.  Français québécois …
5Short meter — Meter Me ter, Metre Me tre, n. [OE. metre, F. m[ e]tre, L. metrum, fr. Gr. ?; akin to Skr. m[=a] to measure. See {Mete} to measure.] 1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending …
6Acute accent — The acute accent ( Unicode|´ ) is a diacritic mark used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic alphabet and Greek scripts.HistoryAn early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions …
7Pitch accent — is a linguistic term of convenience for a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to… …
8Boston accent — Boston English redirects here. For the school see English High School of Boston. The Boston dialect is the dialect characteristic of English spoken in the city of Boston and much of eastern Massachusetts. The accent and closely related accents… …
9Double acute accent — ˝ Double acute accent Diacritics accent acute( …
10Phonological history of English short A — Trap bath split= The trap bath split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in southern varieties of English English (including Received Pronunciation), in the Boston accent, and in the Southern Hemisphere accents (Australian English, New Zealand… …
