Example sentences for: dialect

How can you use “dialect” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dialect geography, a branch of dialectology, describes certain features of the dialects of a language and their distribution.

  • Indignant Joyceans also quarrel with Rose for fiddling with Joyce's use of dialect (substituting "Cor blimey" for "God blimey") and slicing the "Oxen of the Sun" chapter into 11 separate sections.

  • And although the ancestors of some Puzzos might have lived near a well ( puzza dialect for pozzo well or fountain), the forebears of others may have smelled like a sewer ( puzzo stench).

  • The word was clearly felt to be a low word and there remains the possibility that Norton's role was more that of a promoter than of an inventor, that there was an existing word, probably a regional dialect word, that he brought to the surface and to which he gave a new currency.

  • Schoolchildren all over the British Isles speak the local dialect at home and in the playground but switch to Received English--the language of BBC announcers, Whitehall, the great universities and the public school--once the school bell has sounded.


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