Sentence examples for southern dialect from inspiring English sources

"Roses" is a Southern epic in the most cinematic sense — plot-heavy and historical, filled with archaic Southern dialect and formality, with love, marriage, war, and death over three generations of the founders of a small, East Texan town, and, of course, a cotton plantation.

Southern dialect patterns, by contrast, are "shrinking slightly," he said.

The Southern dialect area covers the coastal region from Delaware to South Carolina.

"The twang in his voice, the dialect — he still has this real Southern dialect," Lee says.

One character speaks Southern dialect, and the other one speaks very literary language, so the contrast is great".

Our standard Monday night meal was called meneste, from the southern dialect word menesta, which means vegetables boiled for soup.

The division into Northern and Southern dialects must be very old.

There were significant variations in verb inflections in the Northern, Midland, and Southern dialects.

Probably the best known of these southern dialects is Yue, particularly Cantonese, which is spoken in central and western Guangdong, Hong Kong, and in southern Guangxi a dialect area in which a large proportion of overseas Chinese originated.

Labov explained that locals in such areas as northern Ohio and Michigan traditionally spoke precise English because they wanted to distinguish themselves from the speakers of Southern dialects in their states — a split that seems to go back to the Civil War.

By a specifically Middle German development, the diphthongs iə, uə, and üə, still preserved in the southern dialects, were monophthongized to long ī, ū, and ṻ; this is the New High German monophthongization.