Noun: eye dialect
| Singular | eye dialect |
| Plural | eye dialects |
Sample Sentences
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:eye dialect.
Nouns inflected like eye dialect
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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.
Verbs referencing "eye dialect"
Finnish Nouns
silmämurre.