All 6 Uses of
phenomenon
in
Do You Speak American?
- Labov calls this phenomenon the Northern Cities Shift, "a revolutionary change in the pronunciation of short vowels that otherwise have been relatively stable in English for a thousand years."†
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- John Fought has studied the New South phenomenon—that vogue for Southern ways and country talk that now seems to reach farther and farther.†
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- Beat to his socks, which was once the black's most total and despairing image of poverty, was transformed into a thing called the Beat Generation, which phenomenon was, largely, composed of "upright" middle class white people, imitating poverty, trying to get down, to get with it, doing their despairing best to be junky, which we the blacks never dreamed of doing-—we were funky, baby, like funk was going out of style.†
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- As rock and roll revolutionized the popular-music culture from the mid-1950s, the hip-hop phenomenon has for this generation, not just in music, dance, and language but in its national commercial exploitation in clothing and accessories.†
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- One aspect of the hip-hop phenomenon that now resonates across the culture is its cross-racial appeal.†
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- This phenomenon is so recent that linguists don't know how it will affect Black English—or white English in the South.†
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Definition:
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(phenomenon) something that exists or happened -- especially something of special interest -- sometimes someone or something that is extraordinaryeditor's notes: "Phenomenons" and "phenomena" are both appropriate plural forms of this noun. "Phenomena" is generally used in scientific or philosophical contexts.