Sentence examples for dialect in which from inspiring English sources

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The name is a play on Maryland Eastern Shore dialect, in which "them are" is pronounced as "em ahr".

If nothing else, on Long Island he will have to adjust to a regional dialect, in which at its most extreme, "paahk the caah" becomes "pauwk the caw".

Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general literary language it becomes a jargon, meaningful only to an ingroup.

Market forces were also at work: as the centuries passed, fewer readers — and fewer scribes — understood Aeolic, the dialect in which Sappho composed, and so demand for new copies diminished.

Not only do elements of the longer poem link up with fragments already known to be by her, but the metre and dialect in which the poems are written point to Sappho.

Earlier documents also afford evidence for dialect variation in the realm of phonology; e.g., the early Vedic of the Ṛgveda is a dialect in which the Indo-European l sound was for the most part replaced by r prā 'fill,' pūr-ṇa- 'full.' This change accords with Iranian e.g., Avestan pərəna- 'full.' These forms contrast with Latin plenus and Gothic fulls, with l.

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From the Border ballads to Blake and beyond, I love our splendidly mongrel language and the range of accents and rich dialects in which it dresses itself.

Attic is one of the dialects in which the dual number is best preserved down to the threshold of the Hellenistic period.

An exception is East Norwegian and some Swedish dialects, in which the stressed syllable is low and the pitch is often rising at the end of statements.

The French /y/ is also found in most Occitan dialects (in which it may be a recent introduction from French), in Rhaetian, and in parts of Portugal and Italy; elsewhere it is sometimes a characteristic of affected speech.

This language is comprised of copious dialects in which a variety of host innate and acquired immune pathways actively interact with a multitude of parasite-specific survival strategies.

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