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    • Correspondence
    • Glossaries
    • Commonplace Book
    • The Fictional Artist
    • Names & Nicknames
    • Original Art
    • PERSONAL JOURNAL EXCERPTS
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    • Early Amazon Reviews
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    • Rosters
    • Battle Plan
    • Why Me?
    • OAE On Set Photographs
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The REMAINS OF THE CORPS

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  • Home
  • Music & Lyrics
  • Literary Devices
  • EPIGRAPHS
  • SIDE STORIES
  • Sketches / Illustrations
  • Characters
  • TIMELINE (1913 – 1977)
  • Symbolism
  • Research
  • W.R. on Writing
  • Setting & Action
  • Slang
  • Dialect
  • Correspondence
  • Glossaries
  • Commonplace Book
  • The Fictional Artist
  • Names & Nicknames
  • Original Art
  • PERSONAL JOURNAL EXCERPTS
  • Fictional Acclaim
  • Early Amazon Reviews
  • Character Favorite Books
  • Rosters
  • Battle Plan
  • Why Me?
  • OAE On Set Photographs
  • OAE Unpublished Video Bk.
  • OAE Unpublished Poster
  • OAE Character Maps
  • Literary Role Models
  • Anagram
  • Self-Publishing
  • Editing

Dialect

DIALECT...

establishes a unique voice for a novel's characters.  I thoroughly enjoy listening to novels where certain characters speak in a language peculiar to a specific geographical region.  

I feel strongly that the use of accents and dialects adds to the authenticity of dialogue. Employing significant research, I applied this concept to several characters:


  • Top Sergeant Douglas MacCallum who occasionally reverts to a Scottish burr:  "Stap yer havering . . . geggies . . . lugs . . . heid doon arse up" 


  • Pfc Dusty Coleman who always speaks cowboy and tells his family's western history in the language of the Old West: “Daddy dobewalled him good and proper . . .”


  • Pvt. Red Murphree and his family's Irish brogue makes for a realistic scene set in Ireland in 1916: “I can’t just sit around here pullin’ me plum, Da.”


  • Pvt. Anthony Modifica brings his New Yawk accent to bear in a hilarious encounter with Lt. Kenneth Remain: “Dis woim has gotta toyn, Sir. She means everting in da woild ta me, Sir”


  • Recruiting officer, CWO Michael T. McClatchey’s Irish brogue spices up a recruiting station interview: “We do the Lord’s work, we do. And to do that work, we need an abundance of killers—an exquisite irony, that.” 

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