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Eye dialect Moderate

Eye dialect has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker

2

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.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
dialect
Rhyming Words
ect dect fect tect lect hect sect exect elect spect eject object inject adject advect expect resect adlect detect aspect
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