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Search phrase: dialect

Plays

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King LearKL II.ii.107To go out of my dialect which you discommend soTo go out of my dialect, which you discommend so
Measure for MeasureMM I.ii.182There is a prone and speechless dialect,There is a prone and speechlesse dialect,

Poems

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A Lover's ComplaintLC.125 He had the dialect and different skill, He had the dialect and different skil,

Glossary

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awddialect form of ‘old’
beseekdialect form or malapropism for ‘beseech’
cagion, casiondialect version of ‘occasion’ [= cause]
cedialect version of ‘shall’
chedialect version of ‘I’
chilldialect version of ‘I will’
choulddialect version of ‘I should’
dialectlanguage, manner of speaking
learnteach, instruct [not a regional dialect usage as in modern English]
pursentdialect form of ‘present’
tadialect form of ‘thou’
varadialect form of ‘very’
vloutingdialect form of ‘flouting-stock’ [= laughing-stock, object of derision]
vordialect version of ‘warn’
Wheesundialect form of Whitsun
wot[dialect] wilt
zirdialect variant of ‘sir’
zodialect form of ‘so’
zwaggerdialect form of ‘swagger’

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Themes and Topics

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Plurals...ich might reflect a personal or regional dialect as well as by usages which may be the r...
Verb forms...y in a clause beginning with if] also a dialect usage h5 v ii 201 if ever thou beest mi...
...ii v 1 canst thou quake ’ce shall dialect use kl iv vi 240 i’ce try ’chill ...
...kl iv vi 240 i’ce try ’chill will dialect use kl iv vi 235 ’chill not let go ...
...5 ’chill not let go ’choud should dialect use kl iv vi 238 and ’choud ha’ bin zwa...
...ght not be distinguished ’s shall dialect or colloquial rj i iii 10 thou’s hear o...
... thou shouldst be honest ’st will dialect cor i i 124 you’st hear the belly’s ans...
...t thou be gone wolt will [=wilt] dialect per iv i 62 wolt out woo would ...
... 271 woo’t weep wot will [=wilt] dialect 2h4 ii i 54 thou wot wot thou wou...
Days and dates...sh wednesday 2h4 v iii 35 wheeson dialect form of whitsun 2h4 ii i 87 whitsu...
Welsh...bsp the representation of the dialect makes great use of distinctive grammatic...

Words Families

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Word FamilyWord Family GroupWords
DIALECTBASICdialect n

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