http://www.word-detective.com/2011/01/peaked/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.word-detective.com/2011/01/peaked/comment-page-1/#comment-12930 Vicky Ayers Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:54:39 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=4683#comment-12930 Eye dialect is misspelling words to indicate that they are pronounced in an odd way. Like "wudges" to mean "would you". Eye dialect is misspelling words to indicate that they are pronounced in an odd way. Like “wudges” to mean “would you”.

]]> http://www.word-detective.com/2011/01/peaked/comment-page-1/#comment-12460 Steve Dunham Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:11:04 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=4683#comment-12460 I had known this word as "pekid," meaning to appear unhealthy, but it's not in Merriam-Webster's 10th Collegiate Dictionary, and that left me wondering, "Well where did I get that from?" The OneLook Dictionaries website offered only one dictionary listing pekid: Wictionary, which says that the word is an "eye dialect spelling of peaked." Now I'm even more confused. What is an eye dialect? I had known this word as “pekid,” meaning to appear unhealthy, but it’s not in Merriam-Webster’s 10th Collegiate Dictionary, and that left me wondering, “Well where did I get that from?” The OneLook Dictionaries website offered only one dictionary listing pekid: Wictionary, which says that the word is an “eye dialect spelling of peaked.” Now I’m even more confused. What is an eye dialect?

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