Example sentences for: dialects

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

  • In America, work proceeded space during the 1930s, largely under the direction of Raven McDavid, Hans Kurath, and, later, Harold Allen; more recently, Lee Pedersen and others have investigated American English dialects.

  • These are drawn to run midway between/ localities which were shown by the Survey of English Dialects to use the different words or pronunciations which are the subject of the map.

  • My grandmother's family, the Gannuscios , have long known that some distant relatives spell the name Cannuscio (the softening of hard c to hard g being very common as words move across Italy's myriad dialects).

  • Although there are r -dropping dialects in AE, they do not predominate, as in BE \?\, etc. for card . The common BE pronunciation of respite is /\?

  • Indeed, there are structures in nonstandard dialects that are certainly more expressive than what is available in the standard dialect.


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