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Example sentences for: dialectal
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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 have also noticed a sharp acceleration in the decline of dialectal usages, less in pronunciation than in vocabulary: I find that many people in my own county of Suffolk, for example, no longer know dialect words and expressions that were universal currency as recently as the 1950s.
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).
Being very new to this country and having, so far, only encountered school English, she found it difficult to believe that dialectal variation could be so great in such a tight little island as ours, and that so much of it could be unintelligible to the uninitiated.