English Dictionary

eye dialect

noun

(uncountable) Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.

He used eye dialect in his writing.

意味（1）

(uncountable) Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.

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意味（2）

(countable) A set of such nonstandard spellings, collectively used to reflect a certain form of speech.