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Example sentences for: dialects
How can you use “dialects” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In short, the perception of these terms is culture-dependent, and culture is akin to language in the sense that while a large number of people might be said to speak a language, we know that it is made up of a larger number of dialects which, in turn, are made up of a still larger number of idiolects.
With all the dialects and long-lived speakers of English today, the lexicographer risks inaccuracy in labeling a word, phrase, or sense obsolete or archaic : there is sure to be someone who speaks a form of English in which the expression is extant.
Slag has as many divisions as the English language has dialects.
That one group is referred to as dialects, and the other group as languages has more to do with national boundaries than any internal feature of the speech varieties themselves.
Though snobs and the stuffier sorts of pedagogues are toffee-nosed about regional dialects, poets such as Ted Hughes have acclaimed the organic way they have of fitting the syllables/To the long swell of the land.
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