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    Examples of dialect in a Sentence

  • Examples of dialect
    1. A small number of linguists believe that Cimbrian is not an Austro-Bavarian dialect but a relict of Lombardic.
    2. a southernish dialect
    3. Somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect. — Johnson.
    4. Canon Bryan Rowe, quoted in the article. It's going to take months to put right. But you won't hear any twining [Cumbrian dialect for moaning]. Nobody is going: 'Woe is us'. Everybody is just trying to help somebody else.
    5. An' stop they scraightin' childt, Do shut thy face! - From "The Collier's Wife", a dialect poem by D. H. Lawrence
    6. Students with a pronounced Midland South dialect are required to take a course teaching them to speak and write in Standard English.
    7. If we are "students of the Balatronic dialect" — a dialect so called from the "Balatrons" or professional buffons who invented most of it — we shall perhaps refer to its users as: — "Blunderkins, having their heads stuffed with nought but balderdash.
  • Examples of dialects
    1. The verb can is defective in most English dialects, as it lacks an infinitive.
    2. Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.
    3. The Yue dialects are popularly known as the Cantonese dialects. [...] The speech of Canton City, which is Cantonese in its narrower sense, is the best known and most generally esteemed of the Yue dialects.
    4. Zazaki has three sub-dialects: Northern, Central, and Southern Zazaki.
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