WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
eye′ di′alect,
- Linguisticsthe literary use of misspellings that are intended to convey a speaker's lack of education or use of humorously dialectal pronunciations but that are actually no more than respellings of standard pronunciations, as wimmin for "women,'' wuz for "was,'' and peepul for "people.''
- 1920–25
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