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EYE DIALECT
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("eye dialect" is a kind of...):
accent; dialect; idiom (the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people)