The Boston accent is a local accent of Eastern New England English. It is spoken specifically in the city of Boston, its suburbs, and much of eastern Massachusetts. Eastern New England English also traditionally includes New Hampshire and Maine. The accent originated with the Puritans who came to the area from East Anglia in the 17th century. It was also influenced by 19th and 20th century immigrants from Ireland. This resulted in the distinct r-dropping (locally called "wicked natural") dialect found in modern costal Massachusetts.
The traditional Boston accent is non-rhotic, particularly in the early 1900s. Recent studies have shown that younger speakers use more of a rhotic accent than older speakers from the Boston region. The Boston accent is pronounced with a “broad A”. The letter "r" is dropped only in certain words like 'car' and 'hard'. For example, a person might “pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd.”
Some words used in the Boston area are:
Flag of Portland, Oregon
The city flag of Portland, Oregon, consists of a green field on which is placed a white four-pointed star from which radiate blue stripes, each bordered by L-shaped yellow lines. Narrow white lines separate the blue and yellow elements from each other and from the green background. Officially the flag has a height of 3 feet and a length of 5 feet.
City ordinance 176874, adopted September 4, 2002, designates the design and what it means. Green stands for "the forests and our green City"; yellow for "agriculture and commerce"; blue for "our rivers". Portland straddles the Willamette River near its joining with the Columbia River. City Ordinance 186794, adopted September 3, 2014, updated the proportions and the Pantone color specifications: White, PMS 279 (Blue); PMS 349 (Green); and PMS 1235 (Yellow).
The flag was designed in 1969 by a longtime Portland resident, noted graphic designer R. Douglas Lynch (1913–2009). The version of the flag adopted at that time included, over Lynch's objections, a dark blue canton containing the city seal in yellow and white; in 2002 Lynch and fellow members of the Portland Flag Association persuaded the city council to simplify the design to better reflect his original intent.
Patria (novel)
Patria is a Spanish dramatic novel written in 2016 by Fernando Aramburu.
The novel is set in a small rural village from Gipuzkoa, Basque Country where the ETA established their totalitarian regime. This situation affects two families that were friends in the past, but not in the present.
On the day that ETA announces that it will abandon the armed struggle, Bittori visits the cemetery to tell the grave of her husband, El Txato, assassinated by the terrorists, that she has decided to return to the house where they lived.
Princess Françoise, Mademoiselle d'Estouteville
Princess Françoise of Monaco ("Marie Françoise Thérése"; 20 July 1728 – 20 June 1743) was a member of the House of Grimaldi and a daughter of the-then reigning Princess Louise Hippolyte of Monaco. She was known as "Mademoiselle d'Estouteville".
Given the names "Marie Marie Françoise Thérése", she was the youngest daughter of the-then reigning Princess Louise Hippolyte of Monaco and her consort Prince Jacques I of Monaco. She known as ""Mademoiselle d'Estouteville"" taken from one of her father's dukedoms. She never married and died as a result of smallpox in Paris.
Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva
Marisa Letícia Lula da Silva (née Rocco Casa; 7 April 1950 – 3 February 2017) was the second wife of President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. She served as the First Lady of Brazil from 2003 to 2010. She was born in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. She had four children, three of which were fathered by Lula.
Letícia died from a stroke on 3 February 2017 in São Paulo at the age of 66.
Predrag Matvejević
Predrag Matvejević (7 October 1932 – 2 February 2017) was a Bosnian Croatian writer and political activist. His book, "Mediterranean Breviary: A Cultural Landscape" (1987), was a bestseller in many European countries. It was also translated into more than 20 languages. He was born in Mostar.
Matvejević died on 2 February 2017 in Zagreb at the age of 84.
Jeff Sauer
Jeffrey "Jeff" Sauer (March 10, 1943 – February 2, 2017) was an American ice hockey player and coach. He was the head coach at the Colorado College from 1971 to 1982 and the University of Wisconsin from 1982 to 2002. He was born in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.
Sauer died from pancreatic cancer on February 2, 2017 at the age of 73.
Cor van der Hoeven
Cornelius "Cor" van der Hoeven (12 May 1921 – 1 February 2017) was a Dutch footballer. He played as a midfielder for DWS and Ajax. He also made three appearances with the national team. He was born in Amsterdam.
Van der Hoeven died on 1 February 2017 in Amsterdam at the age of 95.
Imljani
Imljani (Имљани), is a village in Central Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Skender Vakuf Municipality. It consists of a few hamlets spreading on the Undervlašić's plateau, above the canyons of Ilomska and Ugar rivers. Actually, it covers the sub-plateau in the area of the angle between Korićanske stijene and Ugarske stijene ("Rocks of Ugar").
Marie Anne Éléonore de Bourbon
Marie Anne Éléonore de Bourbon (Marie Anne Éléonore Gabrielle; 22 December 1690 – 30 August 1760) was a granddaughter of King Louis XIV and was a nun at the Abbey of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs. Baptised with the names ""Marie Anne Gabrielle Éléonore"", she signed as Marie Gabrielle Éléonore (see right).
Born at the Palace of Versailles the oldest daughter of Louis, Duke of Bourbon, Prince of Condé, "Monsieur le duc" and his wife Louise Françoise de Bourbon As the result of her father, she had the rank of a Princess of the blood, which entitled her to the style of "Her/Your Serene Highness". A younger sister of hers was The Princess of Conti. In her youth she was known by both "Mademoiselle de Condé" and "Mademoiselle de Bourbon", being the oldest princess of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon, and a brother of hers acted as Prime Minister of France during the reign of Louis XV
On 6 May 1706 at the age of 16, she was made a nun at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud in Anjou. She was later made the Abbess of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs in 1723 and was known as Madame de Bourbon. Saint-Antoine-des-Champs had been an abbey since the 13th century.
As the result of being a nun, Marie Gabrielle Éléonore never married and had no children as a result. She died in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif and was buried at the Abbey of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs.
Debra Baptist-Estrada
Debra Baptist-Estrada is a port commander from Belize. In 2016 she received the International Women of Courage Award.
Estrada was Port Commander of Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport, the only international airport in Belize. For 20 years, she worked in the immigration department. In 2015 she helped U.S. officials to find a smuggling organization. The organization was smuggling drugs and people to the United States and Europe. Then she was transferred to the northern border of Belize. She worked as an immigration officer at the Santa Elena Border in Corozal. She continued to refuse bribes and enforce the immigration laws.
Sara Hossain
Sara Hossain is a lawyer from Bangladesh. In 2016, she received the International Women of Courage Award.
Hossain received a bachelor's degree from Oxford University in 1988, and a Barrister-at-Law degree from Middle Temple in 1989. She joined the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in 1992, working in the areas of constitutional law, public interest, and family law.
Hossain helped write the laws on violence against women. She also worked on court cases against fatwas by village courts, forced veiling of women, and non-medical test for virginity in sexual assault cases.
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