Definition of eye dialect Eye dialect
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What does eye dialect mean?
WordNet
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| eye dialect - the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker |
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Wiktionary 
- eye dialect (Noun)
The deliberate use of nonstandard spellings to indicate that the speaker uses a nonstandard or dialectal speech, even though the spelling is pronounced the same way as the original word. - eye dialect (Noun)
A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.
