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Ministry of education and science of Ukraine
Kyiv National Linguistic University

Report
Mother mother tongue by Bill Bryson

group 311
position department
Obruch Artem

Kyiv 2009
Various of English

To start with, no place in the English- talk initiation is more breathtakingly replete with dialects than Great Britain. According to Robert Claiborne, there be no less than thirteen quite distinct dialects in Britain. Mario Pei puts the number of dialects at forty-two nine in Scotland, 3 in Ireland and thirty in England and Wales, but even that is in all probability an underestimate. If we define dialect as a way of speaking that fixed a person geographically, then it is scarcely an hyperbole to say than in Britain there are as umteen dialects as there are hills and valleys. In the six northernmost countries of England alone, seventeen separate pronunciations merely for the word house shake been recorded.
At the same time, the systematic study of dialects is a upstart phenomenon, so no one can say just how many rich and varied forms of speech died before anyone got about to recording them. One of the first people to think of doing so was, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, J. R. R.



Tolkien, later to become famous as the author of the Hobbit trilogy, but at the time a professor of English at the University of Leeds. Another enthusiast, Harold Orton helped him in his undertaking. Fieldworkers were sent to 313 areas to interview people who were elderly, illiterate, and locally born, in an effort to record the commonplace terms for practically everything. The work took from 1948 to 1961. The result was The Linguistic atlas of England.
Certainly the research threw up many surprising anomalies. For showcase the Berkshire villages of Kintbury, Boxford and Cold Ash are within about eighter miles of each other, yet in each they call the outside garment of clothing by a different reach respectively greatcoat, topcoat, and overcoat. In Oxfordshire,...If you want to get a affluent essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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