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the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field
- the promotional team for the new computer used a dialect full of acronyms that the press found difficult to follow
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“Dialect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dialect. Accessed 25 Feb. 2021.
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The first known use of dialect was in 1566
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