Sentence examples for wrong dialect from inspiring English sources

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A woman in the audience who had been studying Basque complained that she had been given the wrong dialect.

And there have been instances in which the interpreter speaks the wrong dialect of a language like Dari, spoken in several countries in Central Asia.

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And as the linguist William Lavov pointed out in the 60s and 70s, regional dialects aren't wrong; they're just part of the natural changes that happen to every language over time.

"People are being mistreated on the basis of their last name, what they wear, their dialect - that is wrong and dangerous for the country as a whole".

But just as many of these phrases just sound like things certain people are more likely to say -- almost like a dialect, and no more wrong or right than "pop" vs. "soda" and "y'all".

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the blush rather go off the rose of writing in dialect around the time Uncle Remus was dropped from the syllabus?

Determined to prove her critics wrong, she adjusted her diet to put on an extra 20 pounds and worked with a dialect coach to nail the accent.

But dialect (whether "Multicultural London English" or Dorset) is simply dialect, and no one is really any more wrong than any other.

Against dialect.

The dialect.

A local dialect?

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