eye dialect en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From 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.
Meanings
-
(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.
- (countable) A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| eye dialects | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
dialect respelling · eye rhyme · pronunciation spelling · dialect spelling · literary dialect
Translations (13)
ka მხედველობითი დიალექტი (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · fi näköismurre (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · es ortografía/grafía dialectal (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · ru падо́нки (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · pt dialeto visual (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · cmn 視覺方言 /视觉方言 (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · fi puhekieli (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · sv talspråk (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · ru зри́тельный диале́кт (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · pl zapis fonetyczny (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · es ortografía/grafía del lenguaje hablado (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · es dialecto visual/ocular (deliberate nonstandard spellings) · ru олба́нский (deliberate nonstandard spellings)