eye dialect
Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are…Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:eye dialect.
зри́тельный диале́ктzrítelʹnyj dialékt, падо́нкиpadónki, олба́нскийolbánskij
(countable)A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.
- the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker
Translations
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Origin
From eye + dialect, by analogy with eye rhyme. First used by George Philip Krapp in The EnFrom eye + dialect, by analogy with eye rhyme. First used by George Philip Krapp in The English Language in America (1925) in reference to written dialogue that uses nonstandard spelling but does not indicate an unusual pronunciation.
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Forms
plural: eye dialects| Singular | eye dialect |
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Word family
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