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# {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} Nonstandard [[spelling]]s |
# {{context|uncountable|lang=en}} Nonstandard [[spelling]]s, deliberately used by an author to indicate that the speaker uses a nonstandard or dialectal speech. |
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# {{context|countable|lang=en}} A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech. |
# {{context|countable|lang=en}} A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech. |
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* Finnish: {{t|fi|näköismurre}} |
* Finnish: {{t|fi|näköismurre}} |
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* Samtao: {{t|stu|es}} |
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Revision as of 18:22, 11 January 2015
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) eye + (deprecated template usage) dialect. First used by George P. Krapp in The English Language in America (1925) in reference to written dialogue that uses nonstandard spelling but doesn't indicate an unusual pronunciation.
Noun
eye dialect (countable and uncountable, plural eye dialects)
- (deprecated template usage) (uncountable) Nonstandard spellings, deliberately used by an author to indicate that the speaker uses a nonstandard or dialectal speech.
- (deprecated template usage) (countable) A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.
Translations
deliberate nonstandard spellings
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See also
- Category:English eye dialect
- падо́нки (padónki) (one of the Russian varieties of deliberate misspellings)