f) Dialectal words are introduced into the speech of personages to indicate their
origin. The number dialectal words and their frequency also indicate the educational
and cultural level of the speaker. Dialectal words are only to be found in the style of
emotive prose, very rarely in other styles. This group of words is obviously opposed to
the other groups of the non-literary English and therefore its stylistic function can be
more or less clearly defined.Example:
“We’ll show level ford what my clever lass
can do. I’m looking ahead and I can see it. When we’ve made When we’ve made ye the
head scholar of Academy, - then you’ll see whet your see what your father means to do
wi you. But you must stick into your lessons, stick in hard.”(A.C.)
lass – девушка
Dialectal words are those which in the process of integration of the English national
language remained beyond its literary boundaries, and their use is generally confined to
a definite locality. We exclude here what are called social dialects or even the still
looser application of the term as in expression like poetical dialect or styles as dialects.
There is sometimes a difficulty in distinguishing dialectal words from colloquial words.
Some dialectal words have become so familiar in good colloquial or standard colloquial
English that they are universally accepted as recognized units of the standardcolloquial
English. To these words belong lass (girl or beloved girl), lad (a boy or a young
man),hinny(honey),tittie (sister) cutty(naughty girl).
Dialectal words, unlike professionalisms, are confined in their use to a definite
locality and most of the words deal, as H. C. Wyld points out, with the every day life of
the country.
“Such words will for the most part be of a more or less technical character, and
connected with agriculture, horses, cattle and sport”.
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