| As a dialectologist, it's always a pleasure to see evidence – of which there is plenty, despite frequent and exaggerated reports to the contrary – of the endurance of local dialect. |
| Every dialectologist must have interviewed, or listened to, very careful speakers of other varieties. |
| Alexander Geddes was an eighteenth-century Scottish orthoepist and dialectologist. |
| The son of a Yorkshire dialectologist and university French teacher, Halliday's contribution to the field of linguistics spans more than half a century. |
| The study of regionalisms celebrates our nation's diversity, and the veteran dialectologist Metcalf is a master at it. |
