Sentence examples for most dialect from inspiring English sources

Most dialect work in the United States has focused on the area east of the Mississippi, and very little is known about dialects of the Western U.S. What kind of variation is there in California itself?

The speakers were from all over Germany and thus covered most dialect regions.

Standard Norwegian and most dialects have distinctive word tones.

In most dialects, however, three genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) are still differentiated.

Many of the vowel sounds in most dialects of English are diphthongs: e.g., the vowels of "out" and "ice," represented as [au] and [ai], respectively.

Many of the vowel sounds in most dialects of English are diphthongs e.g., the vowels of "out" and "ice," respectively.

In most dialects of spoken Arabic, *ṣ́ has merged with *ṭh, but it is still reflected by a distinct phoneme in Classical Arabic.

Nearly 50percentt of all Italians still speak in dialect, at least within the family, and the musicality of most dialects adapted well to the rhyme and cadence of rap.

To the north and west of a line drawn between La Spezia and Rimini, in Italy, most dialects voiced Latin voiceless consonants between vowels and simplified geminates (doubled consonants); southern and eastern dialects to a greater extent retain the Latin voiced voiceless geminate system.

An example of this is with the word anymore: In most dialects, anymore typically has to follow a negative word such as not ("Gas is not expensive anymore"), but in some dialects it can occur without a negative word ("Gas is really expensive anymore").

The word "starve" once meant "to die" (compare Old English steorfan, German sterben); in most dialects of English, it now has the more restricted meaning "to die of hunger," though in the north of England "He was starving" can also mean "He was very cold" (i.e., "dying" of cold, rather than hunger).