• Eye dialect is a writer's use of deliberately nonstandard spelling either because they do not consider the standard spelling a good reflection of the...
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  • activist Beeg Boy, a nickname for Rico Carty (born 1939), baseball player Eye dialect form of big Bee Gees Big (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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  • Dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos, from the Ancient Greek word διάλεκτος, diálektos 'discourse', from διά, diá 'through' and λέγω, légō 'I speak')...
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  • dialects or idiolects to create an impression of backwardness or illiteracy in the speaker. This is called literary dialect, often called eye dialect...
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  • Fuhgeddaboudit, an eye dialect spelling of "forget about it," may refer to: Fuhgeddaboudit, a stereotypical phrase from New York City English, included...
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  • other spelling variants were associated with regional dialects (e.g. Scottish English) and eye dialect (e.g. African American Vernacular English).[citation...
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  • Linton Kwesi Johnson) where it is sometimes described as eye dialect. Nonstandard dialects have been used in classic literature throughout history. One...
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  • N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes, eye dialect for Niggas With Attitudes) was an American hip hop group formed in Compton, California. They...
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  • to: Dialect continuum Dialect (computing) Di•a•lects, a 1986 album by Joe Zawinul Dialectic, a method of argument Eye dialect This disambiguation page...
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    DNCE (eye dialect for Dance) is an American dance-rock band consisting of lead singer Joe Jonas, drummer Jack Lawless, and guitarist JinJoo Lee. Bassist...
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  • communication for those people unfamiliar with the respective field. Eye dialect Oral history Vernacular Bańko, Mirosław (2006). Polszczyzna na co dzień...
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  • lilies out of mind... — "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae" Eye dialect Spelling pronunciation "Rhyme". Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (6th...
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  • singer T-Pain, it was released on December 6, 2005. The title is an eye dialect of the phrase "rapper turned singer." One of the leftover tracks from...
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  • common usage of cacography is to caricature illiterate speakers, as with eye dialect spelling. Others include the use to indicate that something was written...
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    African griot. The stories are written in an eye dialect devised by Harris to represent a Deep South Black dialect. Uncle Remus is a compilation of Br'er Rabbit...
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    dialect of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It is generally considered a dialect or group of dialects...
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    "Lily of Laguna" is a British coon song written in eye dialect. It was written in 1896 by English composer Leslie Stuart. It was a music hall favourite...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sista may refer to: "Sister", spelled in eye dialect Sista River, a river in Russia's Leningrad Oblast which drains into Koporye...
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  • from the childish connotations of fairy tales. Cacography Catachresis Eye dialect Lolcat Ough (orthography) § Spelling reforms Satirical misspelling Spelling...
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  • misspellings that emphasize the pronunciation of a regional dialect are part of eye dialect (such as writing "'Murica'" instead of "America", or "helluva"...
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  • in the United States and many in Canada; most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to a more standard...
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    "chicken"), oichi (ochi, "eye") and a străfiga (a strănuta, "to sneeze"). A well-known particularity of the Oltenian dialect is the widespread usage of...
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  • descriptions of setting and the way it introduces readers to Anglo-Cornish eye-dialect as important features of the text: "But perhaps more importantly, a vividly...
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  • knowledge or skills, as an insult, or to reinforce a group's elitism; cf. eye dialect. Ross, Nigel (July 2006). "Writing in the Information Age". English Today...
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  • hondo ("deep") spelled with J (Spanish pronunciation: [x]) as a form of eye dialect, because traditional Andalusian pronunciation has retained an aspirated...
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  • titles beginning with After All pages with titles containing After Arter, eye dialect spelling of "after" "Afterward", a 1910 short story by Edith Wharton...
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    in place of more conventional expletives. Some words also come from eye dialect spellings of English words, such as fren "friend". DoggoLingo emerged...
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    Ukrainian dialect, translates to "All will pass but God's eye does not pass you." The Eye of Providence in a Jewish cemetery in Kamienna Góra Eye of Providence...
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    written entirely from Ross's first-person perspective, written in an eye dialect representative of the intonation attributed to affluent areas of South...
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  • covers the phonology of the Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect, a variety of Getelands (a transitional dialect between South Brabantian and West Limburgish) spoken...
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