Noun: acrolect
| Singular | acrolect |
| Plural | acrolects |
Sample Sentences
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In one dimension change is directed toward the acrolect, the “typical” change in the creole continuum. [1994, Michael Montgomery, The Crucible of Carolina, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 60:]
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At the other end of the continuum is the most standard speech, the acrolect. In between is a gradient of forms with many successive levels, the mesolects. [2013, Allan Bell, The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 83:]
Nouns inflected like acrolect
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 acro- (“tip; peak”) + -lect, coined by William Alexander Stewart in 1965.
Verbs referencing "acrolect"
Dutch Nouns
acrolect.