Sentence examples for use dialect from inspiring English sources

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Other characters on "Sesame Street" use dialect, make grammatical errors, even speak in Spanish.

But people can easily use dialect and nonstandard forms in casual speech, and flip to Standard English when the situation requires.

Dialect literature flourishes mainly in the German-speaking part of the country, chiefly because there the people, regardless of social rank and education, consistently use dialect for everyday purposes.

The authors below use dialect either as a majority of the novel or as an abrupt break from the narration; many of them are from the opposite side of the Atlantic, but some of them are from the South, or fake it, like Cormac McCarthy.

Use dialect carefully.

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Mr. Akpan also uses dialect to strong effect.

Mr. Tornatore's "Baarìa," like Mr. Monicelli's film, uses dialect, in this case the Sicilian of the director's own home town, Bagheria, familiarly known there as Baarìa.

He has a fantastic way of using dialect, it springs about the page.' For Mabey, words are, 'for better or worse, completely fundamental.' And they often come 'unbidden.

Bierce accused Riley of using dialect to "cover up [the] faulty construction" of his poems.

Riley had long been compared to Burns by critics because they both used dialect in their poetry and drew inspiration from their rural homes.

Be very careful of using dialect.

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