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Word: eye dialect (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • countable A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.
  • uncountable The deliberate use of nonstandard spellings to indicate that the speaker uses a nonstandard or dialectal speech, even though the spelling is pronounced the same way as the original word.

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