eye-dialect

[Barnhart]

preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU,Net writes:

>I note, however, that "eye-diaelct" has increasingly come to mean
>"spellings which reflect dialect." I ain't against language change,
>but we appear to be in the midst of it here with a chance for real
>misunderstanding.

>In the AS article mentioned above I used the neutral term
>"respellings" to refer to both.

>Several interesting studies of respellings appear in a recent special
>issue of JofS (Journal of Sociolinguistics 4,4:614-21).

>dInIs (not "eye-dialect" in the strict [older? obsolescent?] sense)

You forgit "KOHrect" "SAY ense".

Regards
David

Barnhart at highlands.com