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单词 eye dialect
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eye dialect
eye dialect n. (the use of) nonstandard respelling (sometimes for comic effect) to represent dialectal or colloquial pronunciation (as Aw knaow for standard I know), or standard pronunciation not predictable from regular orthography (as enuff for standard enough).
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1925 G. P. Krapp Eng. Lang. in Amer. I. iv. 228 The impression of popular speech..is often assisted by what may be termed ‘eye dialect’, in which the convention violated is one of the eye, not of the ear. Thus a dialect writer often spells a word like front as frunt, or face as fase, or picture as pictsher, not because he intends to indicate here a genuine difference of pronunciation, but the spelling is merely a friendly nudge to the reader.
1965 Amer. Speech 40 230 Which of the most fastidious elocutionists could object to the vocalized result of enuff, probably the oftenest repeated of Capp's eye-dialect usages?
1993 Times 22 Apr. 20/1 Received Pronunciation..has been satirised as the eye dialect, in which shouting is represented as ‘shiteing’.
2000 J. R. Rickford & R. J. Rickford Spoken Soul ii. ii. 25 Its deftly timed delivery of Spoken Soul—conveyed primarily through pronunciation spellings (mo for ‘more’ and Ah for ‘I’) and eye dialect (uh for ‘a’).
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