Dialect

what do you call this?

• coke

• soda

• pop

• other

Nappies vs. Diapers is an example of...

• Dialect

• Accent

• Language

Dialect involves...

• The way a word is pronounced

• Different Languages

• Word choice & Sentence Structure

• A Southern Accent

Bhad Bhabie's pronunciation in this meme is an example of...

• Dialect

• Accent & Eye Dialect

• Language

"That apartment was my first home in New York, a place where my Swedish-English patois was the common language." (145)

• the characteristic special language of an occupational or social group

• uneducated or provincial speech

• a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect

• of, relating to, or being a nonstandard language or dialect of a place, region, or country

Which of the following would most likely be colloquial or vernacular?

• An academic speech

• A page from a textbook

• A conversation between friends

• A conversation between an office worker and his superior (his boss)

Mutually intelligible means...

• A speaker has no accent.

• A speaker can speak and understand more than one language.

• That speakers are speaking two different languages and cannot understand one another.

• That speakers can understand one another despite possible differences in accent or dialect.

What technique do authors use to capture the essence of a character's vernacular speech in a written work?

• Audio books

• Ear Dialect

• Eye Dialect

Everyone speaks with an accent.

• True

• False

a bairn

• a great rough awkward girl

• I'm really fed up, weary

• child

• newt

• hot water bottle