Dialectic or dialectal?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:53:23AM -0500, sagehen wrote:
> A recent issue of the /Anderson Valley Advertiser/ quotes at length from an
> entry in RHHDAS (on the derivation of "honky") which uses "dialectic" where
> I would have expected "dialectal."  Is this standard RHHDAS usage, or
> perhaps a typo or misquote?

It's a mis-expansion (at least, I assume, without having seen the AVA
article).

At the _honky_ entry, HDAS uses "dial.", which is explained in
the Abbreviations as "dialect(al)".

Jesse Sheidlower
OED