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A Dialect English versus Standard English Unfortunately, there are no real indicators of dialect in the orthographical transcriptions of either speaker; neither used phrases or metaphors particular to their region, other than 'mam' instead of mum or mother (child, line 24). Equally, the adult's written sample demonstrates an excellent command of Standard English, and the only indication of dialect arises in a mis-spelling in the child's written sample: 'stiers' (stairs). This may be a sign she has confused her own pronunciation of the word with its spelling, thus writing 'ie' as in words 'tie' and 'pie' - or she may simply have confused the phonic 'ai' with another similar-looking one. Most differences occur in the spoken samples. There are glottal stops present in both the middle of and at the ends of words, e.g.: Adult, line 11 - bought standard: dialect: Adult, line 36 - thirty standard: dialect: In this northern dialect, one of the...

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