Meaning of eye dialect | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   uncountable
2. A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.
   countable

Examples

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:eye dialect.”

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