dialect

Characters speak with a more casual, modern dialect.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Faizi said "tasks have been divided between men and women" for generations in the Parun Valley, where residents speak their own dialect.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

"We hear the calls for dialect films to be more freely screened in cinemas," Singapore's information ministry said in a statement on Monday, promising to "take a more flexible approach".

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

He chose the name "Ossick Lass," using local dialect meaning "Urswick girl."

From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026

His Owerri dialect had a strong rural accent.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Quebeckers accused him, among other things, of “glottophobia”—prejudice against dialects or accents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

But Tan Ying Ying, an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University who studies dialects, isn't optimistic that this will reverse the trend.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

What began as an attempt to unify the Chinese community in Singapore has proven so effective that, some argue, it has driven dialects like Teochew, Hokkien, Cantonese and Hakka into an irreversible decline.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

Because the American colonies drew together speakers of so many different English dialects and European languages, the colonists found themselves drawn to an amalgamated tongue, one which would make collaboration in their new environment possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

Double negatives, ain’t, and other nonstandard forms soon became stigmatized by their association with the less prestigious dialects of English used by its poorer and less educated speakers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker