All 4 Uses of
dialect
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- He already knew Italian, and had also picked up a little of the Romaic dialect during voyages to the East; and by the aid of these two languages he easily comprehended the construction of all the others, so that at the end of six months he began to speak Spanish, English, and German.†
Chpt 17-18
- "I beg your excellency's pardon for keeping you waiting," said the man, in the Roman dialect, "but I don't think I'm many minutes after my time, ten o'clock has just struck on the Lateran."†
Chpt 33-34
- I did; but they were uttered in the Romaic dialect.†
Chpt 33-34 *
- "What is going on?" asked Franz of the count; for, as all the talk was in the Roman dialect, he had not perfectly understood it.†
Chpt 35-36
Definition:
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(dialect) a regional variety of a languageeditor's notes: A dialect can use a different accent, vocabulary, and grammar than other dialects of the same language.