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Didrish English

Didrish English is a variety of English spoken by Didrick Namtvedt, a linguistics student at the University of Bergen in Norway. This variety of English is extremely rare as it is only spoken by Didrick, and heard by very few people.

Didrish English is a rhotic variety with clear /l/ in all positions and it shares lexical features with American English as spoken in California, though Didrick himself says the variety is sometimes closer to that of Canadian English in terms of tonation. Didrish English grammar is a mixture of American and British spelling conventions and words like «color» are found with both American and British spelling from time to time. Again comparisons to Canadian English can be drawn, but Didrick says he is never conciously aware of this when he writes in English and adds that it's more of a coincidence when this occurs.

Didrish English first came about in Didrick's late childhood and continued evolving throughout his teens where it picked up features from English as heard in popular media such as pop music, movies and tv shows. Didrish English gradually shaped itself as a variety in its own right as time progressed and by distinctive features mentioned above, one can always tell that it's Didrick speaking when this variety if English being spoken. Didrish English still continues to evolve with an evergrowing vocabulary as its speaker learns more words, often much thanks to Google Translate, a very popular online translation tool often used by the speaker both in its browser variant and as an iPhone application. Didrick sometimes adds new prefixes and suffixes to newly learned words as well as words he already knows and he also even creates new spellings, in order to make them unique to his variety of English. Although yet to happen, such drastic grammatic makeovers could make some people point them out as grammatic errors. In any case, Didrick will inform that certain words are actually written the way they are for the very reason that they belong to Didrish English and thus should be considered correct grammar.

The future of Didrish English

For the moment being and as mentioned as introduction to this article, Didrish English is being spoken only by one person and it is not known as yet whether this variety will spread to other speakers. Future family generations could, however, become potential speakers of Didrish English but this has yet to be seen and it's frankly too early to say at this point.