Sentence examples for of local dialects from inspiring English sources
(Most spoke one of scores of local dialects).
Lots of local dialects across the world face extinction, but few have attracted a preservationist as unlikely as Mr. Leduey, an aspiring sculptor who until June hadn't left Europe.
Though North Frisian is spoken in only a small geographic area by only some 8,000 persons, it exists in an extraordinary number of local dialects, some of which are mutually unintelligible.
A wide variety of local dialects are used in informal situations, such as among family, friends, and others from the same village (these exist in far more variety than does the English of North America).
For these reasons, other kinds of publications, such as dialect dictionaries or monographs based on extensive free conversation with speakers of local dialects, are indispensable complements to linguistic atlases.
Still only 13, Mozart had by now acquired considerable fluency in the musical language of his time, and he was especially adept at imitating the musical equivalent of local dialects.
Murray sticks to the cheerfully formal lines that distinguish his work while letting his voice shift between chestnuts of local dialect and a brawny but humble standard English.
He had no interest in — indeed, he had principled arguments against — conventional grammar; he omits much punctuation, uses his own spellings, and draws on a rich hoard of local dialect (wonderful, four-legged words like "soodle," "croodling," "progg," "sloomy").
As a dialectologist, it's always a pleasure to see evidence – of which there is plenty, despite frequent and exaggerated reports to the contrary – of the endurance of local dialect.
But many others praised Ms. Wright's densely interwoven poetic language, her deft use of local dialect and her ability to convey the extraordinary predicament of being black, female, rural and poor.
Two researchers with experience in qualitative research and knowledge of local dialect of the area conducted the interviews.
