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eye dialect
eye dialect, the use of misspellings that are based on standard pronunciations (such as sez for says or kow for cow) but are usually intended to suggest a speakerās illiteracy or his use of generally nonstandard pronunciations. It is sometimes used in literature for comic effect.
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