eye dialect

1. 1.

   the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker

   Broaderdialect

Questions about eye dialect

What does eye dialect mean?

eye dialect means "the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker".

Is eye dialect a common word?

eye dialect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.