| The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism. |
| Grammars of Old French are without exception based on the Francien dialect. |
| The play was hard to understand when the characters spoke in dialect. |
| The local accent is similar to the traditional dialect of Hampshire, featuring the dropping of some consonants and an emphasis on longer vowels. |
| So it is not clear if these medieval dialect divisions correspond to any mentioned by Tacitus and Pliny. |
| Well, those children don't speak dialect, not in this school. Maybe in the public schools, but not here. |
