I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting…

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

— Jerry Garcia

The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three…

— Ishmael Beah

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

— David Crystal

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might…

— Nolan North

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent…

— Pico Iyer

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

— William Labov

“Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land…

— Georgia Clark

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting…

— William Labov

Music and singing was my start, so I've always loved dialects because of the musicality.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

“The shallow social and political alternatives bequeathed to contemporary western society by the Enlightenment and its aftermath, in which every issue stands either to…

— N.T. Wright

I've always been fascinated by dialects and accents. In fact, I've rarely played straight English parts. I play character parts - and always will.

— Prunella Scales

I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode…

— Seth MacFarlane

As a nation we love our dialects, and there is a lot of regional variance in the names for different foods - barmcake, bap…

— Susie Dent

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English…

— Anonymous

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance… all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

— Giannina Braschi