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1767 Monthly Rev. 37 App. 570 He has distinguished the several dialectal characteristics with great care.

1831 Foreign Q. Rev. 7 380 We cannot consider them mere dialectal variations.

1873 A. J. Ellis President's Addr. in Trans. Philol. Soc. 208 Their historical relations [are] considered, and their dialectal differences explained.

1885 Academy 29 Aug. 134/2 August Corrodi's dialectal poetry is remarkable for its humour and naturalness.

1901 Dial. Notes 2 185 The English Dialect Dictionary..contains thousands of dialectal words used in America.

1965 Negro Digest June 34/1 Linguists note that a word which is slang, dialectal, provincial, or otherwise substandard today may tomorrow change its course.

2006 E. S. Burch Social Life in Northwest Alaska iv. 215 The terminology is further complicated by dialectal and subdialectal differences.

1864 F. J. Furnivall in Reader 22 Oct. 514/2 The dialectality or provinciality of the prefixed h.

1983 German Q. 56 360 A concluding section on the difficulties of measuring ‘dialectality’ and describing dialects.

2002 M. C. Jones & E. Esch Lang. Change 56 The shift in dialectality described in this study should not be construed as a change in the degree of vernacularity.