eye dialect vs idiom

idiom vs eye dialect

eye dialect and idiom both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
eye dialect	Yes	No	No	No
idiom	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, idiom is a hypernym of eye dialect; that is, idiom is a word with a broader meaning than eye dialect:

eye dialect: the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker
idiom: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

Other hypernyms of eye dialect include accent, dialect.

eye dialect (noun)	idiom (noun)
the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker	the style of a particular artist or school or movement
	the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
	an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
	a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

Difference between eye dialect and idiom

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