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Dialect Quotes by William Labov
- However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more…
- Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
- This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and…
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- The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never… — Flannery O'Connor
- I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan
- Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy — Robin Tunney
- When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use… — Glenn Quinn
- Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea… — Gael Garcia Bernal
- "...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect." — Harry Reid