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The use of such modified spelling in literature is generally referred to as eye dialect (see definitions in the Random House Unabridged and the Oxford Companion to the English Language) .
For example, a single Georgia informant used fatpoke meaning a `fat person,' which one might reasonably guess derives from analogy with slowpoke , or it may also be an r -less pronunciation and figurative use of fat pork , a dialect name for `fat back' or `salt pork.
The critics of dialect often single it out as lazy speech, citing for example the Lancashire 'em for them .
Some of these idioms are the pachuco dialect, Chicano Spanish, New Mexico colonial Spanish, south Texas vocabulary, caló, and the argot of the tirilones of El Paso.
Dialect geography, a branch of dialectology, describes certain features of the dialects of a language and their distribution.