English Explanatory Dictionary

eye dialect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eye dialect.wav

Word forms

eye dialect eye dialects

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.

Related words

eye rhyme pronunciation spelling literary dialect dialect spelling dialect respelling

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 視覺方言 /视觉方言 Finnish: näköismurre Finnish: puhekieli Georgian: მხედველობითი დიალექტი Polish: zapis fonetyczny Portuguese: dialeto visual Russian: зри́тельный диале́кт Russian: падо́нки Russian: олба́нский Swedish: talspråk
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