Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Northern pronunciation of some words likely to be wiped out in 45 years - study forecasts
manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing Northern pronunciations of some words are likely to be wiped out within 45 years, according to a new study.
Researchers from the universities of Portsmouth and Cambridge found that differing regional pronunciations will soon be overtaken by the south-eastern version.
Traditionally, northerners would pronounce “strut” to rhyme with “foot”, for example, but this is likely to be lost. READ MORE: Dad stopped breathing and put into coma on first day of North Wales family holiday While those in the south-west will no longer pronounce the pirate-like “arrr” in farm, according to the study published in The Journal of Physics: Complexity.
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