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Erse

A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland called by the Highlanders Gaelic

Doric

Pertaining to Doris in ancient Greece or to the Dorians as the Doric dialect

Dialectology

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

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Cockneyism

The characteristics manners or dialect of a cockney

Chaldaism

An idiom or peculiarity in the Chaldee dialect

boot

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

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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