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Dialector

One skilled in dialectics

Dialectology

That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects

Dialectician

One versed in dialectics a logician a reasoner

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Cockneyism

The characteristics manners or dialect of a cockney

boot

boot [obsolete or dialect boot compensation, from Old English bōt advantage, compensation] : additional money or property received to make up the

blackmail

blackmail [originally, payment extorted from farmers in Scotland and northern England, from black + dialectal mail payment, rent] : extortion or coercion by often written threats esp. of public exposure, physical harm, or

Special pleading

Special pleading, the science of pleading. It is a forensic invention, due to the dialectic genius of the Middle Ages, but nearly destroyed by modern innovation. See Steph. On Plead.; Bullen and Leake's

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