midland
Collocations
4ADJ.
english, south
VERB + MIDLAND
preserved
MIDLAND + NOUN
american, chaucer's, counties, culture, korea, poems, region
PREP.
from, in, in, throughout, with
Definitions
noun
The region of a country not near the borders; the interior.
The City of Daejeon: the capital of Choongnam Province in the midland of Korea, now it is expanded to be a Metropolitan City.
adj
Resembling or relating to the interior region of a country.
name
The loosely-defined region of the United States that is between the North and the South, where Midland American English is spoken.
Throughout the Midland and the South, the nucleus of /aw/ is well front of center, [...]
The English Midlands.
[...] the difficult Southern English found in the Kentish Ayenbite of Inwyt, or even from the Midland of Chaucer's poems.
The striking positional variants [...] of Virginia are probably an American innovation, since this feature is not found in Standard British English or the folk speech of the Midland and the south of England, though northern England and Scotland have it to some extent. […] It is worth noting that only two instances of the pronunciation /jɛst/, riming with guest, have been recorded in the New England settlement area (one near Boston, the other near Buffalo), a pronunciation widely used in the English Midland along with /jɪst/, riming with fist. These are the normal derivatives of OE gist, gest...
A suburb of Perth in the City of Swan, Western Australia.
A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
A town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.
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6The City of Daejeon: the capital of Choongnam Province in the midland of Korea, now it is expanded to be a Metropolitan City.
WiktionaryThroughout the Midland and the South, the nucleus of /aw/ is well front of center, [...]
Wiktionary[...] the difficult Southern English found in the Kentish Ayenbite of Inwyt, or even from the Midland of Chaucer's poems.
WiktionaryIn the more Midland counties, there are thirteen ; in Staffordshire (Wolverhampton), one; in Warwick (Birmingham), seven; in Nottingham, three; in Leicester, one; and Northampton, one.
WiktionaryThe obvious inference was that Midland culture found its centre in Lichfield, and that the only claim to distinction which the larger town could make was based on commercial grounds.
WiktionaryHis only visit to London had been that on which been touched by Queen Anne for the King's Evil and throughout his life he preserved a Midland accent in his speech.
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