Sentence examples for good dialect from inspiring English sources

"Quite often people who live locally and have been educated locally will speak the language when they are with family and friends or down the pub but then revert to standard English when they are at work or speaking to people who aren't from the area," explained Dr Clark, who said there was good dialect poetry published in the local Black Country Bugle.

If good dialect in a story is considered tiring, perhaps it's because we don't read enough of it.

"I am not very good at dialects other than the one I was brought up in".

"Joe, I want to tell ya," McCain said, staring straight to camera and slipping into the good ol' cowboy dialect that American politicians adopt when they talk directly to voters, even though they are multimillionaires from elite naval backgrounds.

(A classifier is a term that indicates the group to which a noun belongs [for example, 'animate object'] or designates countable objects or measurable quantities, such as 'yards [of cloth]' and 'head [of cattle]'.) Such words as the forms for 'to be' and the classifier for animals are good indications of dialect boundaries.

You wouldn't know it but I am very good at... dialects, accents.

That is as good a test of "dialect" as any.

If you've ever seen the television program ER, you've seen a good example of pure dialect.

In the survey conducted by Lundberg, Slovenes reported good command of their local dialects (90%), preference for usage of regional dialects (51%) over standard language (20%) or the local variety (24%), and strong opinions on where the most beautiful Slovene is spoken (near where the respondents live).

McBride has a good ear for period black dialect, and a deft touch with all sorts of dialogue.

From that volume sprang an online mapping project, Welikia — Lenape dialect for "my good home" — that allows a user to enter a modern Manhattan address and see what was there in 1609.