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eye dialect

noun

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from διάλεκτος
  2. derived from dialectos
  3. derived from dialecte
  4. compounded as eye dialect — “eye + dialect”

Definitions

  1. Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are…

    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.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:eye dialect.

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

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eye dialect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA