eye dialect

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. uncountable
    — For quotations using this term, see Citations:eye dialect.
  2. A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech. countable

词形变化

eye dialects plural

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.
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