How do you use the word "dialect" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "dialect" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "dialect": Tom always makes fun of John because of his dialect. This is a poem written in Scottish dialect.

Dialect Meaning

/ˈdaɪ.əˌlɛkt/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).

nounA variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.

Sentence Examples

Tom always makes fun of John because of his dialect.

This is a poem written in Scottish dialect.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

idiom accent

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The linguist studied the unique ____ spoken in the remote valley.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

Tom always makes fun of John because of his ____.

Word Origin & History

From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγω (légō, “to speak”); by surface analysis, dia- + -lect.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The question could be put: 'Is there anything inherent in a dialect which gives it a negative stigma or is it that the status of the majority of the speakers is transferred to the dialect?' — something that occurs in many regions in different countries." — 1995, Michael [G.] Clyne, The German language in a changing Europe, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 117:

"Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala." — 2007 February 5, Roger Blench, “The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities”, in rogerblench.info, page 25:

"Bloomfield, for example, noted that “local dialects are spoken by the peasants and the poorest people of the towns” (1933: 50) though he also thought that the lower middle class spoke 'sub-standard' speech." — 2010, Mirjam Fried, Jan-Ola Östman, Jef Verschueren, editors, Variation and Change: Pragmatic perspectives (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights; 6), John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, Dialect, by Ronald Macaulay, page 61:

"Among common errors still persisting in the minds of educated people, one error which dies very hard is the theory that a dialect is an arbitrary distortion of the mother tongue, a wilful mispronunciation of the sounds, and disregard of the syntax of a standard language." — 2014, Elizabeth Mary Wright (died 1958), Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore:

"And in addition, many dialects of English make no morphological distinction between Adjectives and Adverbs, and thus use Adjectives in contexts where the standard language requires -ly Adverbs" — 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar: A First Course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 139:

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