"eye dialect" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: eye dialects [plural]
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. Etymology templates: {{com|en|eye|dialect}} eye + dialect Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} eye dialect (countable and uncountable, plural eye dialects)
  1. (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. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Orthography
    Sense id: en-eye_dialect-en-noun-Hi~dwpvs Disambiguation of Orthography: 72 28 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 67 33 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 76 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 62 38 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 70 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 70 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 70 30
  2. (countable) A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-eye_dialect-en-noun-EW4tt7--
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: eye rhyme, pronunciation spelling, literary dialect, dialect spelling, dialect respelling Translations (deliberate nonstandard spellings): 視覺方言 /视觉方言 (shìjué fāngyán) (Chinese Mandarin), näköismurre (Finnish), puhekieli (Finnish), მხედველობითი დიალექტი (mxedvelobiti dialekṭi) (Georgian), dialeto visual [masculine] (Portuguese), зри́тельный диале́кт (zrítelʹnyj dialékt) [masculine] (Russian), падо́нки (padónki) (english: various slang terms) [masculine, plural] (Russian), олба́нский (olbánskij) [masculine] (Russian), talspråk (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'deliberate nonstandard spellings': 52 48

Inflected forms

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