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eye dialects

eye dialects is the plural of eye dialect.

Meaning of eye dialect

Noun

eye dialect (countable and uncountable, plural eye dialects)

  1. (uncountable) Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:eye dialect.
  2. (countable) A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.

Questions about eye dialects

What is eye dialects the plural of?
Eye dialects is the plural of eye dialect.

Words near eye dialects in the dictionary

  1. eye colour
  2. eye colours
  3. eye contact
  4. eye cup
  5. eye dialect
  6. eye dialects
  7. eye doctor
  8. eye doctors
  9. eye drop
  10. eye drops
  11. eye examination

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eye dialects (page history and authors); eye dialect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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