eye dialect

短语

视觉方言

发音

其它

词形变化

eye dialects 复数 eye dialects

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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.

    视觉方言

    不可数 可数

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  2. 2.

    A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.

    可数 不可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

accent dialect idiom

词源

From eye + dialect, by analogy with eye rhyme. First used by George Philip Krapp in The English Language in America (1925) in reference to written dialogue that uses nonstandard spelling but does not indicate an unusual pronunciation.

来源：wiktionary