dialect

Example Sentences

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Translation isn’t useful if it works well in a handful of standard global languages but fails among dialects, accents and real-world contexts.

From The Wall Street Journal

Packed with regional references and local dialect, the play is a love letter to Newcastle.

From BBC

With her principal cast surrounded by Hungarian extras, Fastvold roped everyone, from the dialect coach to the first assistant director’s son to Blumberg’s sister, into the dance.

From Los Angeles Times

Then, when identical brothers Smoke and Stack came calling, Jordan rented a house in Ojai and began excavating the twins’ backstories with help from longtime dialect coach Beth McGuire.

From Los Angeles Times

Fine, I’ll accept an argument that Sully’s offspring would inherit his jarhead dialect.

From Los Angeles Times