Dialect vs Brogue - What's the difference?
dialect | brogue |
(linguistics) A variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.
* A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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A dialect of a language perceived as substandard and wrong.
* 1967 , Roger W. Shuy, Discovering American dialects , National Council of Teachers of English, page 1:
* 1975 , Linguistic perspectives on black English , H. Carl, page 219:
* 1994 , H. Nigel Thomas, Spirits in the dark , Heinemann, page 11:
A language.
A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
A strong dialectal accent. In Ireland it used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent, but gradually changed to mean English spoken with a strong Irish accent as English control of Ireland gradually increased and Irish waned as the standard language.
* 1978 , , Fair Blows the Wind , Bantam Books,
* 2010 , , Random House,
A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
(dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
(intransitive) To speak with a brogue (accent).
To walk.
To kick.
To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
(dialect) to fish for eels by disturbing the waters
As nouns the difference between dialect and brogue
is that dialect is a variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation while brogue is a strong dialectal accent. In Ireland it used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent, but gradually changed to mean English spoken with a strong Irish accent as English control of Ireland gradually increased and Irish waned as the standard language.As a verb brogue is
to speak with a brogue (accent).dialect
English
(wikipedia dialect)Noun
(en noun)- 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: compare
(81) (a) Tex talks ''really quickly'' [Adverb + Adverb]
(b) %Tex talks ''real quick [Adjective + Adjective]
- Many even deny it and say something like this: "No, we don't speak a dialect around here.
[...]
- Well, those children don't speak dialect , not in this school. Maybe in the public schools, but not here.
[...] on the second day, Miss Anderson gave the school a lecture on why it was wrong to speak dialect'. She had ended by saying "Respectable people don't speak ' dialect ."
- Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.
Usage notes
* The difference between a language and a dialect is not always clear, but it is generally considered that people who speak different dialects can understand each other, while people who speak different languages cannot. Compare species in the biological sense.Derived terms
* dialectal * dialecticSee also
* dialogue * ethnolect * idiolect * sociolectAnagrams
* ----brogue
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 62:
- I had no doubt he knew where I was from, for I had the brogue , although not much of it.
page 187:
- “No-man's-land.” The words were spoken in a deep voice filled with salt water and brogue .