Example sentences for: dis

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

  • There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.

  • We simplified one program (called hybridize) to compute individual dissimilarity values, rather than paired differences; a patch that details how to modify the C program is available (see hyb2dis.txt in additional data files).

  • Dis Hebben na de place wey we go lib after we dun die if we no do so-so bad ting for dis Eart.

  • An' whun it dis stert, ah wud wadjir ma wumman an' weans agin yours that it 'ull be a faar waar waar th'n th' last waar wur.

  • 258)--"Swiss Dis":


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