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Example sentences for: dialectal
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Other, often dialectal aberrations such as in surance and in flu ence are also readily understandable.
,” known to every schoolchild (and misunderstood by many, who think it means `where,' while it really means `why': it is retained in what for , dialectal whuffo ').
After reading `my' for dialectal me , I was sent to look up daddy , defined as `a dominant inmate among prisoners' and `an older and/or dominant male homosexual.
I, for one, say deTAIL, baTON, inQUIry or INquiry (depending on the day), adVERtisement, HARass, and reSEARCH, which leads me to think that these stress patterns are not necessarily distributed along dialectal lines.
While it must be acknowledged that pronunciations occupy a great deal of space—owing largely to the dialectal variants and the precision with which they are represented—most American dictionaries are satisfied to show major (American) dialect differences and to rely on detailed variants to be the product of a judiciously selected key word in the pronunciation key (a subject I do not have the space to go into here).