This is one of the beauties of living in "New Yawk": accommodating and accepting all sorts of dialects and poking some good-natured fun while doing it.
What kind of dialect is that?
He may sing in a sort of sub-American dialect, but that is the only language of rock 'n' roll; in between songs and offstage he talks and behaves just like all the other boys from Bermondsey (or Blackburn or Bootle), and neither he nor his formidable team of publicists will let anyone forget it.
Most writers, Hughes says, have a first speech of that sort - a dialect of the tribe or the class or whatever.
Cool is a set of dialects, not a language.
AMIE BARRODALE WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY DAWN CHAN * Dialects are like accents, and people who speak different dialects can sort of understand each other, up to a point.
And was English, so she had this annoying posh accent that sort of veered toward the fake and/or Anglo-American upbringing dialect called "Mid-Atlantic".
The same sort of change occurred in one Italian dialect: in Tuscan, there occur porta "door," la forta "the door," tre porte "three doors," from Latin porta, illa porta, tres portae.
At home, or in whatever room was currently home, the only book was the Bible, but there were his mother's stories, and also the Jamaican poems ("Anancy stories, a bit of reggae and ska, dialect poets, that sort of thing") she used to recite, that she'd learnt at school.
That is as good a test of "dialect" as any.
