Sentence examples for on a dialect from inspiring English sources

This linguistic circumstance in the first half of the 1st millennium bce caused literature to develop on a dialect basis.

Based essentially on a dialect of the type that was eventually called Arcado-Cypriot, it shows great uniformity in time (during the two centuries or thereabouts covered by documents) and in space (from Knossos to Thebes).

Tony Harrison was commissioned by National Theatre director Bill Bryden to work with a company of actors on a dialect conflation of the York, Wakefield, Chester and Coventry cycles.

Bush is not the first president I have taken to task on the use of a dialect form of a verb.

In 1999, Milton Berle bet a friend that Gershenz couldn't locate a 78 called "Cohen on the Telephone", a dialect sketch first recorded in 1913 by comedian Joe Hayman.

Late inscriptions discovered in the Adige River valley and on the plain have a dialect showing some affinities to Etruscan.

Probably most children on earth grow up using a dialect or even a language at home different from the one textbooks are written in.

"When Malindy Sings," based on a Paul Laurence Dunbar dialect poem, appears on "Straight Ahead," while "Mendacity," from a 1961 album by Mr. Roach, revolves around an embittered and still-pertinent political critique.

All three are official languages, with French the sole legislative language, German used for fiscal matters and in the press, and Luxembourgish (French vocabulary grafted on a German dialect) deployed in everyday conversations.

Results indicated that there was indeed a dialect effect on the realization rates [χ 2 6) = 20.82, p < .01].01]

He had a very particular stammer, a very particular way of moving, and a lot of that is talked of anecdotally, so I, I just sort of drew on that and went with a dialect coach and tried to build this character with her and [director Morten Tyldum] and costume as well.