dialectologistn.
/ˌdʌɪəlɛkˈtɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌdaɪəlɛkˈtɑlədʒəst/ Linguistics.
An expert in, or practitioner of, dialectology.
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dialectician1848
dialectologist1871
dialectologer1881
social dialectologist1965
variationist1975
1871 Academy 1 June 296/1 Until there are a few more really competent dialectologists, the phonetic tools supplied by Mr. Ellis seem likely to rust away from want of work.
1883 A. M. Elliott in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 4 490 The dialectologist must be fastidious indeed who would not be satisfied with this extraordinary mass of material.
1944 Mod. Lang. Rev. 39 167 The attention of the dialectologist is turned to those archaisms which have become fixed in speech and still remain in use.
2006 K. Wales Northern Eng. i. 17 There are certainly many dialectologists who would deny that there are dialect ‘boundaries’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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