LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | Date: 1998
LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY, also dialect geography [1920s]. The study of regional dialect variation. See
ISOGLOSS,
LINGUISTIC ATLAS.
© Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998.
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