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it's a place where the footballers can change
jam-packed/ crammed/ squeezed/ overcrowded
: "to resume"a.to recapb.to summarizec.to sum upd.to continue with
"cumbersome"a.heavyb.unusualc.exhaustingd.boring
the place where extra players wait for their turn to play
"to downplay"a.To exaggerateb.To minimizec.To improved.To forget
you can read the information about the goals there
What are the two main types of communication systems in humans
"Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem."
GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education)
raising the cap on tuition fees from 3,000 a year to 9, 000 in 2012
no /h/ at the beginning of words: hand→and, hen→en
rising tones at the end of declaratives (can be mistaken for question while it's not)
Ulster Scots (County Derry, Antrim, Down)→ Mid Ulster English (spoken almost everywhere else in NI)→ South Ulster English (spoken along the Irish border)
Scottish Vowel Length Rule or Aitken's lawExtensive use of glottalisation
regulated by the Scottish Vowel Length Rule (SVLR)PRICE FLEECE DRESS FACE TRAP/BATH FOOT/GOOSE MOUTH →phonetically long in some environments and short in other environments.MONOPHTHONGSFACE and GOAT monophthongal→Scottish, Northern EnglishCONSONANTST-tapping
tip, of tongue further back in mouth than classic RP R : in NOrthern Irish accent uses the retroflex R
Very different from Irish English → influence of English and Scottish settlers on the indigenous Irish-speaking population + political, geographical and religious made it even more complexProvince of Ulster has 6 counties in Northern Ireland (which constitute Northern Ireland), and 3 in the Republic of Ireland
Newcaste and TynesideIn many respects sounds like Scottish accent and English accent (Scots will say it sounds English and the English will say it sounds Scottish)
Long narrow or quasi monophthongal PRICE → [a:] or [a'ε]NORTH → [backward 'c' with little cédille]Mock exam questions:≠ between accent and variety → accent phonetics phonology variety also defined with syntax grammar and lexical