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    The Northumbrian burr is the distinctive uvular pronunciation of R in the traditional dialects of Northumberland, Tyneside ('Geordie'), and northern County...
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    marked Northumbrian forms such as 'gan' (to go) and 'divvent' or 'dinnet' (don't) that survive in Tyneside, Wearside and Durham. Northumbrian burr: the...
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  • University basketball team Northumbrian Burr, a distinctive pronunciation of the letter R found in the northeast of England Burr distribution, a statistical...
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  • the dialect spoken in Northumberland in rural communities used the Northumbrian burr [ʁ]. This is now very rare.: 40  The variety spoken in Durham, while...
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  • English) "Uvular" R or "Northumbrian burr": voiced uvular fricative [ʁ] (occurs in very conservative varieties of Geordie and Northumbrian English, though largely...
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  • kingdom in early medieval England. Northumbria or Northumbrian may also refer to: Northumbrian burr, a distinctive uvular pronunciation of R in the traditional...
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    "predominantly North-Northumbrian" with "a few features shared with Scots". Features of this dialect include the "Northumbrian burr", a distinct pronunciation...
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  • (occurs in northern Northumbria, largely disappeared; known as the Northumbrian burr) In most dialects /r/ is labialized [ɹ̠ʷ] in many positions, as in...
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    University Press. p. 368. ISBN 0-521-24224-X. Påhlsson, C. (1972) The Northumbrian Burr. Lund: Gleerup. Lodge (2009), p. 46. François (2005), p. 44. Urua...
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    and northern County Durham, declining. See English phonology and Northumbrian Burr. Sierra Leonean More rarely a trill [ʀ]. French rester [ʁɛste] 'to...
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  • uvularized before uvular consonants, and English speakers retaining the Northumbrian Burr are reported both to uvularize and to retract vowels before a rhotic...
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  • were accents that once employed a uvular R, which was called the "Northumbrian burr". developmental non-rhotic Rs: Many non-rhotic British speakers have...
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    See South African English phonology Northumbrian dialect More often a fricative. Dialectal "Northumbrian Burr", mostly found in eastern Northumberland...
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    article uses only the term "pre-uvular". Påhlsson, Christer (1972). The Northumbrian Burr: A Sociolinguistic Study. Lund: Gleerup. p. 96. Heinrich, Patrick...
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    Northumberland and northern County Durham use a uvular rhotic, known as the "Northumbrian Burr". However, it is no longer used by most contemporary speakers, who...
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  • vowel changes before historic /r/. A uvular realization of /r/, the "Northumbrian burr", is used by some speakers in the far north of England. A relatively...
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    varieties of the English language spoken in Northern England has been the Northumbrian dialect of Middle English, in addition to contact with Old Norse during...
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  • (Workington), Southern Cumbria (Barrow-in-Furness) and Carlisle. Modern Northumbrian has local variants in Northern Northumberland (Berwick-upon-Tweed), Eastern...
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    and dates of Easter) as the norm in Northumbria, and thus "brought the Northumbrian church into the mainstream of Roman culture." The episcopal seat of Northumbria...
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    [ɣrɑ:s] 'grass' Allophone of /g/. See British English phonology Northumbrian [example needed] Burr Georgian ღარიბი/ğaribi [ɣɑribi] 'poor' May actually be post-velar...
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    blow for King Edward II, and its loss is compounded by the fall of the Northumbrian castles of Wark-on-Tweed (Carham Castle), Harbottle and Mitford. April...
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    not the East Anglian king Aethelstan (born around 894) but an earlier Northumbrian of the same name, and not the legendary Scottish King Achaius but the...
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    languages across borders there is a dialect continuum between Scots and the Northumbrian dialect, both descending from early northern Middle English. The Scots...
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    timetables, maps and cross-network passes for foreign travellers in Scotland Northumbrian Railways Great Scenic Railways of Devon and Cornwall Archived 7 June...
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    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Imma, a Northumbrian aristocrat who was knocked unconscious in battle and later pretended...
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  • blow for King Edward II, and its loss is compounded by the fall of the Northumbrian castles of Wark-on-Tweed (Carham Castle), Harbottle and Mitford. April...
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  • Knotts. For services to OXFAM. John Lackenby, Kielder Water Manager, Northumbrian Water. For services to the Water Industry. John Robert Lamb, Principal...
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    (London, W1P) Hugh David McConnachie Speed, Non-Executive Director, Northumbrian Water Group. For services to the Water Industry. (Edinburgh) John Damian...
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    The smith Wayland from the front of the eighth-century Northumbrian Franks Casket....
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