Sentence examples for use of a dialect from inspiring English sources

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

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In addition, there are the several varieties of the Takri, used by the people living on the lower ranges of the western Himalayas; Dogri, used for a dialect of Punjabi; Landa, the national alphabet of Punjabi, which has many varieties and is used mainly by shopkeepers of Punjab and Sindh; and Gurmukhi script, the characters of the Sikh scriptures.

The use of a multi-dialect grammar meant it was unnecessary to write a new grammar for the Microsoft SQL dialect.

It helps that over three-quarters of the world's websites are in English the Internet was an American child, and British people use a dialect of the American language.

In May 1902, as Synge was attempting to find a language and tone for a number of plays, he read Lady Gregory's translation of the ancient Cuchulain cycle of stories, in which she had used a dialect of English close to the one spoken near her home in Galway.

Wolfram's eccentric style, with its complex rhetorical flourishes, its ambiguous syntax, and its free use of dialect, makes Parzival a difficult but richly rewarding poem.

Hirda was inspired by the stories of the Shetland Islands, and the libretto makes much use of Shetland dialect: the title itself means chaos or confusion.

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.

The California Gold Rush provided a vivid and exciting background for the stories of Bret Harte, whose The Luck of Roaring Camp (1868), with its use of miners' dialect, colourful characters, and California setting, is among the early local colour stories.

Robertson admits (with momentary hesitation) that the use of Scots dialect "has stood in the way of my books getting sold in North America", and is alert to the irony of independent-minded Scottish writers – "most of those that I know" – being in the stewardship of English publishers.

Ibrăileanu additionally credited the Moldavian faction, Kogălniceanu included, with having helped introduce spoken Romanian into the literary language, at a time when both Ion Heliade Rădulescu and successors of the Transylvanian School made use of the dialect prevalent in Orthodox and Greek-Catholic religious culture.

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