East Midlands English

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East Midlands English is a dialect, including local and social variations spoken in most parts of the East Midlands, England. It generally includes areas east of Watling Street (which separates it from West Midlands English), north of an isogloss separating it from variants of Southern English (e.g. Oxfordshire) and East Anglian English (e.g. Cambridgeshire), and south of another separating it from Northern English dialects (e.g. Yorkshire). The region includes the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire. Dialects of the northern parts of the East Midlands usually share similarities with Northern English dialects, while dialects of the southern parts have similarities with Southern England and parts of the west have some similarities with the West Midlands. Compared to other English dialects, there have been relatively few studies of East Midlands English.

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