Quotes About Dialect

Is he talking Latin?' said the Yeoman. 'No,' said Hubert, 'but I'll be damned if it's the English my mother taught me.

Where I come from, everyone talks like me. It's working-class Edinburgh.

I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.

When did the r disappear from Southern speech, and how did it come to disappear? The custom of dropping it was not borrowed from the North, nor inherited from England.

jiggery pokery – which is the ancient nomadic term for doing things with words.

My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

The rural, mid-19th-century dialect, coupled with the author's interest in ethnobotany, roots the story deeply in the houses, forests, gardens, and even streambeds of antebellum Virginia. –School Library Journal

It's like a puzzle, putting together your individual accent and what you grew up with or what you heard. It must be insane to be a dialect coach, to balance all that out.

explanation of the difference between a language and a dialect:

a language, he said, is a dialect with an army and a navy.

Say 'Kenmore Square', I insist. Kenmaw Sqway-ah. Say 'Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.' Nothing could be finah than to be in Caroliner.' You're doing that on purpose. I'm not. I sway-ah.

The best definition comes from the linguist Max Weinreich: a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

That's a Z," I corrected, making sure to pronounce it "zee." "I'm afraid that's a zed," she counter-corrected

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.

I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.

After another minute Reuben brought forth the following sentence: 'I ha' scranleted two hundred furrows come five o'clock down i' the bute.' It was a difficult remark, Flora felt, to which to reply. Was

Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.

As Mario Pei has noted, no two people in any language speak the same sounds in precisely the same way. That is of course what enables us to recognize a person by his voice. In short, we each have our own dialect.

People in Philadelphia don't come from there; they come from "Fuhluffia.

Romanians often claim to have the language that most closely resembles ancient Latin. But in fact, according to Mario Pei, if you wish to hear what ancient Latin sounded like, you should listen to Lugudorese, an Italic dialect spoken in central Sardinia, which in many respects is unchanged from the Latin of 1,500 years ago.

Wallander smiled to hear how he too used to speak, before his move to Ystad had changed his dialect.