Example sentences for: dialectal

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

  • 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.

  • Other, often dialectal aberrations such as in surance and in flu ence are also readily understandable.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • ,” 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 ').


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