dialecks

Updated: May 2, 2025

I can understand it in the city, where you can't speak to a soul without his putting his hand on his watch, but here there's always a lot of folks with beaks and claws and tails, and all kinds o' tongues an' dialecks, that you don't need any introduction to, to say 'howdy!" But Marmaduke remembered that morning and how the Toyman had seemed in trouble.

Robert Gordon Anderson - Half-Past Seven Stories