Dialect and Standard

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Dialect noun - The special terms or expressions of a particular group or field.

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Standard is an antonym for dialect in local speech topic.

Standard noun - Something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared.

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Dialect is an antonym for standard.

old	old dialect	old standard
good	good dialect	good standard
female	female dialect	female standard
particular	particular dialect	particular standard
Other adjectives: common, certain, original, actual, new, major, strange, different, modern, European.

In many countries people (especially those from the countryside or "ghettos") tend to be more comfortable in their native dialect instead of the standard variety of the national language.

Source: Eloquent in My Native Tongue
Chinese Dialects and Accents: The characters speak in the local Shanghai dialect rather than standard Mandarin.

Source: Film / Flowers of Shanghai
Aided in some words or concepts being hard to grasp in the standard variety that are one commonplace word in the dialect.

Source: Eloquent in My Native Tongue

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