Dialectist

What is Dialectist?


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n. & adj.

One who believes that a particular dialect is superior to others.

dialectism di'a-lec''ti'sm n.

Some Britons have a dialectist attitude in that they believe American English is a harsh-sounding English dialect, claiming that it is a greatly mutilated form of British English.

See accent, idiom, vernacular


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