There are also Creoles, who speak a Creole dialect of English and are often of African and African-European extraction, and Garifuna, who are descended from Carib Indians and Africans, as well as a number of smaller ethnic groups.

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There even seems to be a European-English dialect evolving that is well accepted and understood.

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After the 15th century, Scots diverged sharply from northern English dialect.

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The world premiere theatre performance of Black Diggers presents the touching, never-before-told stories of 1, 000 Indigenous soldiers who fought in WWI, while The Shadow King is a poignant and thought-provoking Indigenous re-working of King Lear, performed through a mix of live rock music using both English and Kriol (an Indigenous Australian dialect).

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Every year, the American Dialect Society, which is dedicated to the study of American English, votes on a word of the year.

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English has around forty-two, depending on dialect.

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