dialect
Example Sentences
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Fine, I’ll accept an argument that Sully’s offspring would inherit his jarhead dialect.
From Los Angeles Times
All the enlightened reformers in Europe were desperately trying to eliminate the peasant peculiarities and plebeian dialects that divided the peoples of their nations.
It should be pointed out that the poem is written in an old Scottish dialect, and thus contains words that are rarely used nowadays, even in Scotland.
From Literature
Morgan liked hip-hop, but she thought of it as a performance, not a speech community—a common language or dialect shared by a group of people.
They speak an antiquated dialect of the same language, which the agents, who are also Yine, have been able to learn.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
