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Regional accents of English speakers The regional accents of English speakers show great variation across the areas where English is spoken as a first language. This article provides an overview of the many identifiable variations in pronunciation, usually deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect, of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers
Regional accreditation Regional accreditation is a term used in the United States to refer to the process by which one of six accrediting bodies, each serving an area of the country, accredits schools, colleges, and universities. Each regional accreditor encompasses the vast majority of public and nonprofit private schools in the region they serve.
Regional airline Regional airlines are a type of passenger airline service that provides services to smaller communities, frequently connecting to larger cities, and is generally intended to feed a larger airline with larger aircraft. The smaller communities are generally not able to support larger aircraft or do not generate enough passengers to warrant a high frequency of flights.
Regional airliner A regional airliner is a small airliner designed to fly between 35 and 100 passengers from point to point, generally within one country. They are often operated by commuter airlines or by government militaries to transport troops between bases, although some large major airlines operate their own regional fleets.
Regional anaesthesia Regional anaesthesia, is anesthesia affecting only a large part of the body, such as a limb. Regional anaesthetic techniques include epidural anaesthesia, spinal anaesthesia, brachial plexus blocks, and intravenous regional techniques (Bier block).
Regional analgesia Regional analgesia blocks passage of pain impulses through a nerve by depositing an analgesic drug close to the nerve trunk, cutting off sensory innervation to the region it supplies. The drug is normally injected at a site where the nerve is unprotected by bone.
Regional Air Lines Regional Air Lines is an airline based in Casablanca, Morocco. It operates scheduled domestic services and scheduled regional flights to Spain and Portugal, as well as charter services for tour operators and corporate clients.
Regional Air Services (Tanzania) Regional Air Services is an airline based in Arusha, Tanzania. It is the Tanzanian division of Airkenya and operates domestic services and charter flights in East and Southern Africa Flight International 12-18 April 2005.
Regional Arts & Culture Council The Regional Arts & Culture Council (also known by the acronym "RACC") is the agency that oversees arts activity throughout the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. It was established as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 1995, replacing a bureau that had been shared by the City of Portland and Multnomah County -- the Metropolitan Arts Commission.
Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003 The Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Act 2003 (2003 c 10) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Its core provision is to allow the Deputy Prime Minister to make orders for referendums in each of the Regions of England on the question of whether they wish to have an elected regional assembly.
Regional Assemblies in England Regional Assembly is the name which has been adopted by the English bodies established as regional chambers under the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998 and of the elected London Assembly. original defined role was to channel regional opinions to the business-led Regional Development Agencies].
Regional Assemblies in Ireland The regionalisation arrangements negotiated by the Irish Government in the context of Agenda 2000 resulted in the designation of Ireland into two Regions for EU Structural Funds purposes (NUTS II level): The Border Midland & Western Region (BMW Region) which has Objective 1 status for the full period to 2006; and the Southern and Eastern Region (S&E Region) which has a phasing out regime for Objective 1 until the end of 2005.
Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands The Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI), also known as Operation Helpem Fren, was created in 2003 in response to a request for international aid by the Governor-General of the Solomon Islands. "Helpem Fren" is Pidgin English for "helping friend".
Regional Authorities in Ireland The Regional Authorities were established by the 1991 Local Government Act and came into existence in 1994. Under this Act, the Regional Authorities have two main functions: to promote the co-ordination of public service provision and to monitor the delivery of EU Structural Fund assistance in the regions.
Regional brewery Regional brewery is a term used in the United Kingdom to describe a long-established brewery that supplied beer to tied pubs in a fixed geographical location such as South Wales, the Midlands or the Isle of Man.
Regional Bank & Thrift Regional Banks & Thrifts are companies that provide, on a limited regional basis, banking services such as deposits; loans, leases, mortgages, and credit cards; ATM networks; securities brokerage; investment banking; insurance sales; and mutual funds and pension funds management. A Regional Bank is one that operates in one region of a country, as opposed to a money center bank, which operates nationally and globally.
Regional Building Committee Regional Building Committees (RBC) are organized by Jehovah's Witnesses in many countries to oversee the construction and maintenance of their places of worship, known as Kingdom Halls and Assembly Halls. The objective of such committees, which usually consist of five to seven persons, often with experience in the construction trades, is to coordinate the efforts of those involved so as to provide attractive and functional facilities that are financially viable.
Regional Bus and Rail Company of Canton Ticino The FART (Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi – Regional Bus and Rail Company of Canton Ticino) provides the urban and suburban bus network of Locarno, Switzerland, cable cars between Verdasio and Rasa, and between Intragna – Pila – Costa, and the Centovalli Railway which connects the Gotthard trans-Alpine rail route at Locarno with the Simplon trans-Alpine route at Domodossola, Italy. There are 10 stations on the Swiss side of the frontier and 12 stations on the Italian side, the complete rail journey taking approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Regional centre (Singapore) A regional centre in the city-state of Singapore is a second-tier commercial zone after the main central business district in the Central Area. About 15 times the size of a normal town center in Housing Development Board (HDB) towns, they are located in three suburban districts of Singpore, namely the Woodlands Regional Centre located at Woodlands in the North Region; the Tampines Regional Centre at Tampines in the East Region, and the Jurong East Regional Centre at Jurong East in the West Region.
Regional converter A regional converter is a hardware device used to bypass regional lockout, especially on a video game console, allowing imported media units to be played on domestic devices. Unlike mod chips, regional converters do not circumvent copy protection.
Regional county municipalities of Quebec Following is a list of the regional county municipalites, territories, and newly amalgamated cities (villes) in the province of Quebec, Canada. Quebec used to be divided into counties, but in the early 1980s switched over to a new system of county regional municipalities, which seldom follow any of the previous county borders, and only a few have kept names.
Regional Cadet Support Unit (Eastern) The Regional Cadet Support Unit (Eastern) (RCSU(E)) is the Canadian Forces unit that is responsible for the organisation of the Canadian Cadet Movement within the province of Québec, Canada. By French-Canadian and other Francophones, the unit is known as the Unité régionale de soutien aux cadets (Est) or l'URSC (Est).
Regional Cancer Centre The Regional Cancer Centre(RCC), was established in 1981 by the Government of Kerala and Government of India at Thiruvananthapuram(Trivandrum), the capital of Kerala. The RCC deals with the treatment of Cancer in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
Regional Clean Air Incentives Market Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM) is an emissions trading program operating in the state of California since 1994. Under the trading program, hundreds of polluting facilities are required to cut their emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur oxides (SOx).
Regional Co-operation Council The Regional Co-operation Council, or RCC, will be a regional cooperative network for countries in Southeastern Europe, planned for creation in 2008. It will likely succeed both the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and the Southeast European Cooperation Process
Regional Cooperation for Development Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD) was a multi governmental organization which was originally established in 1962 by Iran, Pakistan and Turkey to allow socio-economic development of the member states. In 1979, this organization was dissolved and was replaced by Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in 1985.
Regional Council (Hong Kong) The Regional Council (RegCo, ) was a municipal council in Hong Kong responsible for municipal services in the New Territories (excluding New Kowloon). Its services were provided by the Regional Services Department.
Regional differences and dialects in Indian English Every state (and virtually every Union Territory) in India has its own dialect of English, which is product of many of the rules of pronunciation of the local language being applied to what is generally termed Indian English. Note that rural India hasn't as many English speakers as urban India, and that there too extensive a difference between the way people from these two greatly-varying worlds would speak to record each and every village's personal spin on the state dialect.
Regional districts of British Columbia The Canadian Province of British Columbia is divided into regional districts, more or less analogous to counties in the United States and the United Kingdom. The province provides a primer to explain the concept, as well as more detailed regional district maps.
Regional Development Agency A Regional Development Agency (RDA) is a Non-Departmental Public Body established for the purpose of development, primarily economic, of one of England's Government Office regions. There is one RDA for each NUTS level 1 Regions of England.
Regional District of Central Okanagan, British Columbia The Regional District of Central Okanagan (RDCO) is a regional district in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Canada. The population in 2005 was 165,221, an increase from the official Canada 2001 Census total of 147,739.
Regional District of Comox-Strathcona, British Columbia The Comox-Strathcona Regional District of British Columbia, Canada, is on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island and part of the mainland north of the Sunshine Coast. It is bordered to the northwest by the Mount Waddington Regional District, to the east by the Powell River Regional District, and to the south by the Alberni-Clayoquot and Nanaimo Regional Districts.
Regional District of Nanaimo, British Columbia The Regional District of Nanaimo is a regional district located on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the south by the Cowichan Valley Regional District, to the west by the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, and to the northwest by the Regional District of Comox-Strathcona.
Regional Electricity Companies (England and Wales) In March 1990, twelve Regional Electricity Companies (RECs) in England and Wales, known by law as public electricity suppliers, were formed as part of the restructuring of the electricity industry in England and Wales, prior to privatisation.
Regional Fast Rail project The Regional Fast Rail project was a State Government initiative in Victoria, Australia, to decrease travel times on parts of the Victorian regional railway network. Launched on September 5 2000, the project involved the upgrading of tracks linking Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, and the Latrobe Valley to Melbourne, the state capital, as well as the introduction of 38 high-speed "VLocity" diesel multiple-unit trains built by Bombardier.
Regional Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Huanuni Regional Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Huanuni (in Spanish: FederaciĂłn Regional de Cooperativas Mineras de Huanuni, Fercomin), a political grouping in Villa Huanani, Oruro Department, Bolivia. Fercomin won the municipal elections in December 2004, gaining three out of the five seats in the municipal council.
Regional Football League The Regional Football League (RFL) was an American football league formed to be the self-styled "major league of spring football." The RFL season was designed for spring-summer play with the weekend prior to the Fourth of July designated as the annual date for its championship game.
Regional Force Surveillance Units The Regional Force Surveillance Units (RFSUs) are specialised units of the Australian Army responsible for patrolling northern Australia. The RFSUs regularly conduct operational patrols during peacetime, and the reservists who make up 90% of the RFSUs personnel carry out most of their training during these patrols.
Regional Forestry Agreement The Regional Forestry Agreement or RFA is a 20-year plan for the management of Australia's native forests. The agreement was designed to provide a balance between the environmental and commercial interests in Australia's forests and to put an end to the history of conflict between these two groups.
Regional Gliding School (Pacific) Regional Gliding School (Pacific) (RGS(Pac)) is one of five Glider Pilot Training Schools that are part of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets Program. The primary task is to run the annual summer camps to train Air Cadets to the level of a Transport Canada Glider Pilot Licence.
Regional Gliding School (Prairie) Regional Gliding School (Prairie), (RGS(Pra), RGS(P)), is one of five Glider Pilot Training Schools that are part of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets program. The primary task is to run the annual summer courses to train Air Cadets to the level of a Transport Canada Glider Pilot License.
Regional Governments of Peru Regional Governments, in the Government of Peru, is a government organization which organizes, conducts, and manages, each one of the twenty-five Regions of Peru. It has political, economic, and administrative autonomy in the subjects of its matter.
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI, or ReGGIe) is a regional initiative by states in the Northeastern United States region to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The RGGI is designing a cap and trade program for emissions from power plants.
Regional handwriting variation Although people in many parts of the world share common alphabets and numeral systems (variations on the Latin writing System are used throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia, and much of Africa; the Arabic numeral system is nearly universal), the calligraphy that is used changes. this results in the "regional accent" in handwriting.
Regional hegemony Regional hegemony refers to the power or influence which a nation exercises over more than one neighboring country. Contemporary examples - each of which is arguable and/or politically sensitive - include the People's Republic of China and the rest of southeast Asia; Russia and its former eastern European republics; and the United States of America and the rest of North America.
Regional Health Information Organization Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs) are key to the US National Health Information Network (NHIN).White House website Transforming Health Care: The President’s Health Information Technology Plan, Promoting Innovation and Competitiveness: A new generation of innovation, April 27, 2004.
Regional Chair (Ontario) In Ontario, Regional Chairs (District Chair in Muskoka District; Warden in Oxford County) chair the council for the province's regional municipalities. As head of council, they also act as chief executive officer of the municipal corporation, as legislated by section 225 of the Ontario Municipal Act.
Regional integration Regional integration is a process in which states enter into a supranational regional organization in order to increase regional cooperation and diffuse regional tensions. Past efforts at regional integration have often focused on removing barriers to free trade in the region, increasing the free movement of people, labor, goods, and capital across national borders, reducing the possibility of regional armed conflict (for example, through Confidence and Security-Building Measures), and adopting cohesive regional stances on policy issues, such as the environment.
Regional Information Center As non-profit organizations designed solely to serve the needs of school districts, the BOCES Regional Information Centers offer a variety of affordable high quality instructional and administrative services. From designing technology platforms to training personnel, selecting appropriate software programs to providing a high speed telecommunications networks, the centers help districts remain on the cutting edge of technology in education.
Regional Integration Law Regional Integration Law is a branch of jurisprudence which seeks to analyse the growing impact of regional bodies such as the European Union and NAFTA on the national laws of the signatory states, especially in relation to public and private trade law.
Regional Internet Registry A Regional Internet Registry (RIR) is an organization overseeing the allocation and registration of Internet number resources within a particular region of the world. Resources include IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) and Autonomous System numbers.
Regional lockout Regional lockout is the programming practice, code, chip, or physical barrier used to prevent the playing of media designed for a device from the country where it is marketed on the version of the same device marketed in another country.
Regional Language Programmes on the BBC Asian Network The BBC Asian Network, a BBC National Radio station has a number of programmes in South Asian languages aimed at a specific community although since 24 April 2005 under schedule changes as part of a broader review of BBC programming the BBC Asian Network has shifted towards a greater emphasis on English language programming.
Regional magazine A regional magazine is a periodical devoted to a specific geographic area in a broad sense. Regional magazines usually publish articles and photo essays featuring an area's wildlife, wilderness, people, communities, events, history, outdoor activities, and travel destinations.
Regional municipality A Regional Municipality (or Region) is a type of Canadian municipal government similar to a county, although the specific structure and servicing responsibilities may vary from place to place. Regional municipalities were formed in highly populated areas where it was considered more efficient to provide certain services, such as water, emergency services, and waste management over an area encompassing more than one local municipality.
Regional Mathematical Olympiad The Regional Mathematical Olympiad or Regional Mathematics Olympiad or RMO is a regional-level Olympiad held in India as a qualifying round for the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad, which in turn is a qualifying round for the IMOTC, where students are selected for representing India at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Regional Mobility Authority A Regional Mobility Authority is an independent local government agency authorized under Chapter 370 of the Texas Statutes. A Regional Mobility Authority is a multi-modaltransportation agency that can be formed by one or more counties to finance, design, construct, operate, maintain and expand a transportation facility or service.
Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario The Regional Municipality of Durham, informally referred to as Durham Region (2003 population 525,000), is a regional municipality located east of Toronto, Ontario. It has an area of approximately 2,500 square kilometers.
Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario The Regional Municipality of Halton, or Halton Region, is a regional municipality located in Ontario, Canada in the southwest part of the Greater Toronto Area and until 1974 was known as Halton County. It is comprised of the city of Burlington and the towns of Oakville, Milton, and Halton Hills and is policed by the Halton Regional Police Service.
Regional Municipality of Niagara, Ontario The Regional Municipality of Niagara (2001 population: 410,574), also known as the Niagara Region, or, colloquially, "Regional Niagara", is a regional municipality comprising twelve municipalities of southern Ontario, Canada.
Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario The Regional Municipality of Waterloo is a regional municipality located in Ontario, Canada. It consists of the cities of Kitchener, Cambridge, and Waterloo, and the townships of Wellesley, Woolwich, Wilmot, and North Dumfries.
Regional odontodysplasia Regional odontodysplasia is a developmental abnormality of teeth, usually localized to a certain area and nonhereditary. The enamel, dentin, and pulp of teeth are affected, and on radiographs the teeth are described as "ghost teeth".
Regional One Regional One (or Regional 1), is a regional airline based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was established and started operations in August 2003 and operates scheduled services in western Canada Flight International 12-18 April 2005.
Regional planning Regional planning is a branch of land use planning and deals with the efficient placement of land use activities, infrastructure and settlement growth across a significantly larger area of land than an individual city or town. The related field of urban planning deals with the specific issues of city planning.
Regional power A regional power is a term used in the field of international relations to describe a state with power and influence that allows it to have a certain element of control over its geographical region. If there are any major powers or superpowers in a region, they are automatically accepted as a regional power, even though their power and influence spreads well beyond the boundaries of their region (this can be seen with China in East Asia, India in South Asia and the United States in North America).
Regional Pacific Airlines Regional Pacific Airlines is an airline based in Queensland, Australia. It was established and started operations in May 2001 and operates scheduled services from Horn Island in Queensland Flight International 12-18 April 2005.
Regional Parks Botanic Garden The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a 10 acre (40,000 m²) botanical garden located in Tilden Regional Park in the Berkeley Hills, east of Berkeley, California, in the United States. It showcases California native plants, and is open to the public in daylight hours every day of the year except New Year's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Regional Plan Association The Regional Plan Association (RPA) is an independent, not-for-profit regional planning organization, founded in 1922, that focuses on recommendations to improve the quality of life and economic competitiveness of the 31-county New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region.
Regional Plant Protection Organization Regional Plant Protection Organization (RPPO) is an intergovernmental organization responsible for cooperation in plant protection. There are the followings organizations under the International Plant Protection Convention:
Regional rail Regional rail or commuter rail usually provide a rail service between a central business district and suburbs or other locations that draw large numbers of people on a daily basis. The trains providing such services may be termed commuter trains.
Regional road A regional road in the Republic of Ireland is a class of road not forming a major route (such as a national primary route or national secondary road), but nevertheless forming a link in the national route network. Regional roads are numbered with three digit route numbers, prefixed by "R" (e.
Regional Radiocommunications Conference A Regional Radiocommunications Conference (RRC) is a meeting held between members of the International Telecommunications Union from one or more ITU Regions, but from the whole world. Such a meeting is normally used to put in place an agreement on use of frequencies for services such as broadcasting.
Regional Railroad of the Year The Regional Railroad of the Year is an annual award given to exemplary North American Class II railroads by rail transport industry publication Railway Age. The award recognizes the railroads' commitments to customer service and innovation in the industry.
Regional Railways Regional Railways was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail created in the 1980s that existed until privatisation in the 1990s. The sector was originally called Provincial, and ran regional non-express services.
Regional Repertory Theatre A Regional Repertory Theatre in North America usually refers to a theatre company or group located outside New York City which is a member of the League of Regional Theatres (LORT) in the USA or the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) in Canada. Sometimes it refers to a non-member group which is large enough to belong but does not.
Regional Research Laboratory, Thiruvananthapuram Regional Research Laboratory, Trivandrum (RRL-T), is a constituent laboratory of CSIR, India, engaged in R&D activities in the field of Agroprocessing, Chemical Sciences, Materials & Minerals, Biotechnology and Process Engineering and Environmental Science & Technology. Around 100 scientists and 200 research fellows are working in various scientific disciplines in this institute.
Regional Road 174 (Ottawa) Regional Road 174 is the name of the four-lane highway in eastern Ottawa that leads to the suburb of Orléans and beyond to Rockland, Hawkesbury and the Quebec border. It was originally provincial highway 17 but in the 1990's the province turned over responsibility to the municipalities.
Regional Route (South Africa) Regional Routes are secondary highways in South Africa linking pairs of cities or serving as feeder roads to the National Road network from cities not situated on National Roads. They are indicated by the letter R followed by a two- or three-digit number.
Regional science Regional science is a field of the social sciences concerned with analytical approaches to problems that are specifically urban, rural, or regional. Topics in regional science include, but are not limited to location theory or spatial economics, location modeling, transportation, migration analysis, land use and urban development, interindustry analysis, environmental and ecological analysis, resource management, urban and regional policy analysis, geographical information systems, and spatial data analysis.
Regional screen agencies Following a major review of the film infrastructure in the United Kingdom during 2000, the UK Film Council set up nine Regional Screen Agencies, one in each regions of England, to deliver support for film-making, exhibition and related media activities.
Regional sports network A Regional Sports Network, or RSN, is a cable television station that presents sports programming to a local market. The most important programming on an RSN consists of live broadcasts of professional and college sporting events, as those games generate an overwhelming percentage of an RSN's advertising income.
Regional state In political geography, a regional state is a state more centralized than a federation, but less centralized than an unitary state. Regional states include federations in which power has become more centralized, and unitary states in which some power has been devolved to regional governments.
Regional Science High School Regional Science High School (RSHS)- commonly called RS or Science, is a specialized system of public secondary schools in the Philippines, established during the 1994-1995 school year. It is operated and supervised by the Department of Education, with a curriculum heavily focusing on math and science.
Regional Seat of Government Regional Seats of Government or RSGs are underground concrete bunkers designed to house a small staff of dispersed British government officers during a nuclear war in order to provide a continued government after an attack, in the likely event that central London and the national government had been destroyed.
Regional Security System The Regional Security System (RSS) for the Eastern Caribbean region is an agreement for defence and security. Born after the United States invasion of Grenada in the 1980's the RSS was somewhat of an Anti-Communism sponsored entity.
Regional Special Events Center The Regional Special Events Center, often locally referred to as the RSEC, is a multipurpose arena located on the campus of Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, USA. Its primary tenants are the Murray State Racers (men's) and Lady Racers basketball teams.
Regional Special Forces Counter-Terrorism Conference The Regional Special Forces Counter-Terrorism Conference is an annual event participated by various armed forces and counter-terrorism agencies in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. The conference provides participants the opportunity to share professional insights and discuss ways to enhance information-sharing among counter-terrorism professionals.
Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre A Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre (also Regional Specialized Meteorological Center and Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre) is responsible for the distribution of information, advisories, and warnings regarding the specific program they have a part of, agreed by consensus at the World Meteorological Organization as part of the World Weather Watch.
Regional Sports Centre, Kochi Regional Sports Centre is a multipurpose sports centre in Kochi, Kerala, India. Situated in four acres of land, the centre has the facilities for badminton, tennis, basketball, table tennis, swimming, billiards and cricket.
Regional theatre in the United States Regional theatres (also called resident theatres) in the United States are professional theatre companies that produce their own seasons. The term regional theatre is most often used to refer to members of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT).
Regional Theatre Tony Award The Regional Theatre Tony Award is a special Tony Award given to a region theatre company in the United States. A one-off award for "Contribution to Development of Regional Theatre" was issued in 1948 to Robert Porterfield of the Virginia Barter Theatre.
Regional Transmission Organization A Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) is an organization that is established to control and manage the transportation (at high voltage) and flows of electricity over an area that is generally larger than the typical power company's distribution system.
Regional Transportation Authority The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) is the financial and oversight body for the three transit agencies in northeastern Illinois--the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra, and Pace--which are called Service Boards in the RTA Act.70 ILCS 3615/1.
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC) is an independent governmental agency responsible for transportation in Southern Nevada, primarily Clark County. The RTC operates the Citizens Area Transit (CAT) system, which currently includes a bus line and a bus rapid transit system (known as Metropolitan Area Express - MAX), and the newest service added which is known as "The Deuce" servicing the Las Vegas Strip, Nellis Blvd.
Regional Transportation District The Regional Transportation District, or RTD, is the regional authority operating public transit services in eight of the twelve counties in the Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area in Colorado. RTD refers to its buses and light rail trains as TheRide.
Regional variation in Australian English It is sometimes claimed that regional variations in pronunciation and accent of Australian English exist, but if present at all they are very small compared to those of British, Irish and North American English – sufficiently so that linguists are divided on the question. Overall, pronunciation is determined less by region than by social and educational influences.
Regional variations (television) A regional variation generally refers to times when a television or radio station simultaneously broadcasts different programmes, continuity or adverts to different parts of its coverage area. This may be so as to provide programming specific to a particular region, such as local news or may be so as to allow advertisements to be target ted to a particular area.
Regionalisations of Australia A regionalisation of Australia is a system by which Australia is divided into regions. There are a great many different regionalisations, created for a range of purposes, including political, administrative, statistical and biological.
Regionalism (art) In art, regionalism is a realist modern American art movement wherein artists shunned the city and rapidly developing technological advances to focus on scenes of rural life. Regionalist style was at its height from 1930 to 1935, and is best-known through the so-called "Regionalist Triumvirate" of Grant Wood in Iowa, Thomas Hart Benton in Missouri, and John Steuart Curry in Kansas.
Regionalism (literature) In literature, regionalism, or local-color fiction, was a perspective of literature that gained popularity in America after the Civil War. Local-color writers depicted nearly every region of the United States, leading realism to their stories by describing customs and manners and re-creating dialects.

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