Southern Dialect

At home, my parents taught me the Nigerian way of life. I ate Nigerian food and learned about Nigerian history, and I also tried to learn the language of Nigeria, Yoruba, with limited success. However, at school, I was immersed in the American way of life. I ate American food, such as hot dogs or cheeseburgers at school instead of the Nigerian food, I ate at home and I learned about US history instead of Nigerian history. After living in California for a year, we moved to Texas, where I was exposed to the Southern culture. After a year in Texas, I was already saying "Y'all" and I had adopted some of the Southern traditions, such as being very respectful and using “Ma’am” and “Sir” when talking to

During southernization lot of area start to make more advanced trade routes with one another. The first example of this was the silk road in China. This no only aloud they to share ideas with other areas about invention but also culture. The like the Roman who had not learned how to create silk yet now were able to wear silk clothing. People who had always had bland food were now able to get spices. People who wanted to learn about other religions were now about to do that. This was the time of learning from others. That in order to advance you must take what others have and adapt on them. A great example of this is what Japan did. They saw the Chinese culture and were shocked by it. They took the idea of Chinese bureaucracy and buddhism to create their own verizon called zen buddhism. Another good example is where korea took the idea of the Chinese alphabet. However, it was to advanced for them so they created their own language based on it.

The Civil War began in the 1860’s and was one of the most important events in southern and U.S. history. In the south one of the major symbols of the war was the confederate flag. For me personally since I am from South Carolina I have found that there are two separate views on the flag which would be the supporting and opposing sides. The supporting side is said to be majority of white southerners and the opposing side is said to be majority of black southerners and white northerners (Webster and Leib). According to Webster and Leib white and black southerners have pride in their southern heritage, but the heritage is much different. What I would like

Stranded from worries, yet surrounded by inspiring stories and diverse culture. Great Southern Land manipulates the audience through various language techniques used perspicaciously in order to assure positive light on Australia’s perception in the listener’s mind making it a definite for Australian advertising. What are these features you many ask? The first technique seen as a vital part to this manipulation is repetition of the noun groups “Great Southern Land” and “standing at the limit of an endless ocean. groups these are used to reinforce and emphasize the point at stake. “Great Southern land is repetitioned in order to reinforce the standing of great in the listeners mind therefore making them remember Australia as great, this is

Linguist and Cajun Megan E. Melancon calls the Cajun dialect a “gumbo”. There are many languages that make up this gumbo. The various languages include Spanish, French, German, and English. The Cajun language is mainly spoken in Southern Louisiana, but can reach into parts of Southern Texas and Southern Mississippi due to emigration (Melancon).

I was born and raised in a small town in North Carolina, so small in fact, that not many know it even exists. Right in the heart of the south, I've grown up with very strong family ties. I love biscuits and gravy, or some sweet tea as much of the rest of them. However, growing up in the south comes with certain downfalls as well. At a young age I began to realize that the majority of those around me were closed-minded, not intentionally, but it was still present. By the age of thirteen I knew that I was different than what most people in the south would consider normal, I didn't have a strong southern drawl, wasn't interested in hunting or fishing, and quite frankly didn't love going to church. However there was one distinctive characteristic

The Southerners are considered by the Northerners to be “lazy, and the cause for the depressed economy” (Evans). While in retrospect the Southerners work just as hard as the Northerners, but just in a different way. For example the people living in Milan (Northern Italy) work long, hard hours each day with little to no breaks. This is completely different in Southern cities, such as Naples, where the Southerners work from sunrise till 1:30 p.m. They then take a break starting from 1:30 all the way till 4:30 p.m. This break is known as a siesta, and is the only time they get a break from their frantic lives. Another major difference between how the two regions work is in the South almost all adults work as some sort of farmer. These farms may be grapes, corn, or even olives. On the contrary, in the North’s populated cities, such as Milan or Florence, many people work in the fashion business. The reasoning behind this is that Northern Italy is considered the fashion capital of the world. Although many work in fashion, others in Northern Cities work in factories or large scale industrial buildings because they are the industrial capital of the

Come on down to the South where you can become who you've always wanted to be.

I grew up in the South where my Grandfather would say words like “I reckon…” and “over yonder”almost on a daily basis so even though I don't use the most common southern vocabulary I do use some. When I first heard someone refer to soda as “pop” I didn't know what they were talking about. I remember when I was little and would go over to my grandma’s house she would correct my grammar all the time. I thought it was so annoying, especially when I would say “these ones” and she would lecture me for ten minutes about how saying “the ones ones” didn't make any sense. Now every time someone says “these ones” all i can think of is her extensive lectures.

From Mississippi himself, William Faulkner dealt with many themes of Southern tradition conflicting with modernist ideas of his day, especially in his short story "That Evening Sun". Faulkner most notably uses the roles of the Compson children to symbolize the toxic nature that Southern aristocracy at the time imposed upon the new southern generation and rest of society to try and keep its remaining legacy. The youngest of the Compson children, five-year-old Jason represents the forced southern principles of white supremacy and how it corrupts the youth of those indoctrinated by the ideas at a very young age. Next, the girl of the three siblings, seven-year-old Caddy represents the differencing realities of the kids compared to the adults in

Source number one is an called The Article This Map Shows How Americans Speak 24 Different English Dialects by Max Nisen from Business Insider. Nisen says that America speaks one language but there is distinctive sayings that are baffling to most people from other parts of the country. Nisen also gives a map that was from Long Island University’s Robert Delaney which was displayed by Reid Wilson at The Washington Post. The map shows the division of twenty-four different distinctive dialects; which is a lot more complicated. The article also says that is not just accents, there is recognizable ways of speaking; Delaney also says that “accent refers only to the way words are pronounced, that a dialect has its own grammar, vocabulary, pattern and expression, as well

I am in the New York speech community. The ways I am apart of this community is through the fact that my parents and sister both grew up in New York, although I was born in Arizona I learned the dialect through my family. Growing up I always heard words a certain way, with the New York dialect, therefore I developed it unknowingly into my own dialect. Many people accuse me of faking a New York accent when they find out I was born in Arizona. Being accused of faking a New York accent frustrates me because its something I don't do willingly rather unknowingly.

"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago”, meaning that Horace Mann saw war as unnecessary yet now in society we tend to focus more on the advantages would we take out of conflict that aren't necessarily for moral reasons, but more selfish ones. Conflict is inevitable whether it be man against nature or man against man. Since the creation of uniform societies there has been a need to reach a position on the conflict as a whole, so how does one move the population of the society to reach this point? It is seen in wars since the crusades to World War II that the role a party would take would

Where I grew up is a small city, growing up it seemed like almost everybody knew each other. We could almost get to everywhere in five to ten minutes. In Iowa most of the schools were predominantly white so growing up there was much different than when I moved to Saint Louis. I would always go over my Grammy’s house and play with my cousin Shay. In 2006, my Grammy moved to Saint Louis in order to take care of my Great Grandparents. My mom, sister, and I stayed in Iowa it was quite difficult not having the help of my Grammy. But growing up in Iowa caused me to be very different than the kids in Saint Louis. When I moved here in 2008 many kids teased my about me speaking “proper” or “white”. They teased me about the music I listened to it was very different from what they were used to since most of those kids grew up in predominantly black areas and schools. But from eight years old until present day I have spent my life in Saint Louis and although I still speak “proper” or “white” most people I have adjusted to the life

determine the different types of dialect you might hear. For instance, in the Northern part of