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Tuesday, 7 June 2016

World Englishes - Chicano

We are extending our study of accent and dialect past the UK this year and we are adding 'world Englishes' which includes the way other countries use English, business English, English as a lingua franca etc. Here is a link to a page describing an interesting American variety I have only just heard of: Chicano. Chicano is almost a creole although it is much more heavily weighted towards English than Spanish so the researcher rightly regards it more as a kind of dialect of English, but pidgins and creoles will be an area we will investigate as part of 'world Englishes'.

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