dialect - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • Scot: Dialects of Scots Scots has a wide range of dialects.
  • language: Q: You speak several dialects of the Kurdish language.

Converse of object

  • speak: The dialect spoken by everyone looked toward Oslo rather than London.
  • relate: The language of the majority of Macedonians is in fact a dialect closely related to Bulgarian.
  • understand: Whoever listens to our program on a daily basis will understand both dialects, whether intended or not.
  • know: Do we first ask do they know the dialect, or do we say, here are people learning the language of Jesus.
  • learn: She learned the local dialects, and was able to accompany her husband on his tours of inspection and watch him dispense justice.
  • use: I love, too, the way he uses dialect.

Adjective modifier

  • Kurdish: The number of Kurds with access to Internet who can read in Kurdish dialects is another parameter.
  • Northumbrian: These can be poems, prose, essays or plays, written in standard English or Northumbrian dialect.
  • Doric: I am the first academic to gain a PhD by public output featuring video capture and speaking the Doric dialect of NE Scotland.
  • Scots: The book has many fascinating bits of lore, as well as extensive oral poetry, all in Scots dialect.
  • nonstandard: Nonstandard Dialects: Language varieties that deviate from a commonly accepted language norm.

Modifies a noun

  • poet: The 19th century Dorset dialect poet William Barnes wrote on Bridport Harbor.
  • variation: Some of your entries will be used to map dialect variation across the UK.
  • coach: Sometimes actors learn a foreign language or train with a dialect coach to develop an accent to make their characters more realistic.
  • word: I try and use as many dialect words as I can in my everyday speech.
  • geography: In general, that is doubtless right, but I consider that dialect geography is not the whole explanation for antlingen in Tatian.
  • poetry: Pete Castle ( Facts & Fiction / August 2005 ) No, this isn't an obscure album of medieval Lancashire dialect poetry!

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