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eye dialect: a standalone construct

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eye dialect1 CONSTRUCTEye dialectKRAPP · STYLISTICS

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Stylistics

nonstandard spellings that do not change pronunciation, such as 'wuz' for 'was', used to mark a speaker as uneducated or rustic.

In stylistics, eye dialect refers to nonstandard spellings that do not change pronunciation, such as 'wuz' for 'was', used to mark a speaker as uneducated or rustic. This meaning comes from Krapp (1925) in The English language in America.[1]

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  1. Krapp, G. P. (1925). The English language in America. The Century Co., for the Modern Language Association of America. Open Library record

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