Word: dialection
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...vigorous doctoring of texts (i.e., cutting, rearranging, shearing off excess dialect) Editor Aswell has adapted them for what he calls "modern reading." His conception of humor is broad enough to embrace Irving, Poe and Edward Everett, but he also includes the best of the true-blue local colorists, nateral-born liars and ringtailed roarers. Among them...
...from Harvard in 1919, and did graduate work in German universities before accepting a teaching job at Roberts College, in Istanbul. The classes at Roberts were conducted in English, but no one could understand him unless he spoke a brand called "Standard London" English. Learning to mouth this dialect on pain of being incomprehensible resulted in his present, pleasant way of talking which most people consider Canadian...
...that time speak a word of Spanish or French, and I did not speak a word of Hungarian or French. We improvised and we found very soon that we were very happy: nobody understood us and we could not make ourselves understood. I am now creating a special dialect of Spanish-English, and hold this out as the manner in which to speak both English and Spanish." † The most important country of Eastern Europe is Russia, which was not represented at the Institute because Soviet officials ignored several Invitations to send a representative. The Communist Party in Cleveland circulated...
Song of the South (Walt Disney-RKO Radio) makes movie actors out of ol' Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and de creeturs an' crawlin' things. Adapted with freehanded skill from the famed dialect tales of Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), the picture is a curious mixture of live action (70%) and cartooning...
Readers who look patiently will find authentic U.S. history in Holdfast Gaines, hidden under a growth of dialect as thick as dog hair and the most unabashedly bogus hard-luck love story since the days of J. Fenimore Cooper...