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How to pronounce “eye dialect”
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- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of eye dialect with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Talking Back, Talking Black
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.
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How to pronounce eye dialect
Talking Back, Talking Black

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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.
- (countable) A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.
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