eye dialect

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Engleski

Sistem

Etymology

From eye + dialect. First used by George P. Krapp in The English Language in America (1925) in reference to written dialogue that uses nonstandard spelling but doesn't indicate an unusual pronunciation.

Noun

eye dialect (countable and uncountable, plural eye dialects)

Primeri
women → wimmin said → sed listen → lissen

(uncountable) Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately used by an author to indicate that the speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.
(countable) A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.

Translations

deliberate nonstandard spellings

Chinese:
Mandarin: 視覺方言／视觉方言, 视觉方言 (shìjué fāngyán)
Finnish: näköismurre
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Russian: zrítelьnый dialékt m (zrítelʹnyj dialékt), (various slang terms) padónki (ru) m pl (padónki), olbánskiй m (olbánskij)
Swedish: talspråk (sv)

Related terms

eye rhyme