Look up: eye dialect


  1. eye dialect
    noun the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=eye%20dialect

  2. eye dialect
    the use of misspellings that are based on standard pronunciations (such as sez for says or kow for cow) but are usually intended to suggest a ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/62

  3. Eye dialect
    Eye dialect is the use of non-standard spelling for speech to draw attention to pronunciation. The term was originally coined by George P. Krapp to refer to the literary technique of using non-standard spelling that implies a pronunciation of the given word that is actually standard, such as wimmin...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_dialect

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