Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A social or regional variety of speech having a sociolinguistic or functional identity within a speech community.
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- noun linguistics A specific form of a
language or language cluster: alanguage or adialect . The term is used when it is not possible or preferable to decide whether something is a distinct language or only a dialect of a language.
Etymologies
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Noun: electability ee'lect'u'bil'i'tee 1. What John Kerry lacked besides credibility, compatibility, and likeability.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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The int'lect's more powerful, I should make the guess, than ever it was ....
The Devil's Garden W. B. Maxwell 1902
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Sex is described in Latin abbreviation: sup. lect. (on the bed); illa habet menses (she is menstruating).
Inamoratas and Other Women Elizabeth Abbott 2011
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For all these reasons well, maybe not the first... but, tangentially, you'll love the article's oh-so-correct usage of accents in English -- such as "reëlect" -- which, we feel, is closely enough related to our first audience-criterion for us to make such an assumption... where were we?
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [133] -- The Silly Season Begins Chris Weigant 2010
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It us simple folk that don't understand all those fancy nuances that will vote and e lect a president.
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If he were white, we'd be getting the elitistist eggheaded ivory tower in-tee-lect-shul who never did an honest days work in his life smear, the corrupt Chicago politician smear and, possibly, the inexperience smear.
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If yew e-lect mah Democrit challenger, college-age kids will bar hop!!
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It us simple folk that don't understand all those fancy nuances that will vote and e lect a president.
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