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Example sentences for: dialect
How can you use “dialect” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Yet another Aboriginal word, borak , was held by some to be the etymon of barrack , although the probability has to be that this is a British regional dialect word given a new lease of life in fresh circumstances.
It is unlikely that a borrowed word would undergo a significant change in form so quickly and, with hindsight, it is more likely that an impreciseness of meaning caused by unfamiliarity should attend the bringing into vogue of a word amongst those who did not have a dialect memory of it.
It is just one more dialect of English, but one would have to be listening pretty carefully to figure that out on first exposure to it.
Many writers have collected gems of Sussex dialect down the years, like Rev. William Parish and another cleric, Rev. Edward Boys Ellman, both before World War I.
Other quizzes “test” the knowledge of the reader's knowledge of gay, black, or carnival slang, of the origins of certain words ( topaz matches up with “Greek for `conjecture' because they could only guess where it came from”), some of tautological clichés (like beck and --), others of nautical jargon, euphemisms, numerical allusions, Yankee dialect, and so forth.
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