EYE DIALECT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("eye dialect" is a kind of...):

accent; dialect; idiom (the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people)

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