Citations:dialect


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * This book is writ in such a dialect As may the minds of listless men affect: It seems a novelty, and yet contains Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains.
 * 1787, Jonathan Edwards, reporting to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences:
 * This language is spoken by all the Indians throughout New England. Every tribe, as that of Stockbridge, of Farmington, of New London, &c., has a different dialect, but the language is radically the same.
 * 1967, The lowest trees have tops, page 140:
 * 'He learned to speak Spanish first and he can't seem to put his mind on English. He thinks it's a dialect for the residents.'