Top Dialect Quotes
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman
The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.
Henry Sweet
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Mason Cooley
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.
William Labov
Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
Madeleine Stowe
Martin Henderson 
William Labov 
Thomas Hardy 
Doris Lessing 
Branford Marsalis 
Emily Carr 
Henry Sweet 
Madeleine Stowe 
Walt Whitman All Dialect Quotes
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman 
61% of people like this quote
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
Mason Cooley
54% of people like this quote
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.
William Labov
52% of people like this quote
Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
Madeleine Stowe
51% of people like this quote
The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
Martin Henderson
51% of people like this quote
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
Branford Marsalis
47% of people like this quote
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
Emily Carr
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Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy
45% of people like this quote
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
Doris Lessing
44% of people like this quote