ABSTRACT
The popular view of dialects overlaps the scholarly in that the term is usually applied to:
1 regionally-marked speech 2 the speech of lower socio-economic groups 3 regional pronunciations
Popularly, dialects are also often associated with warmth, humour, vitality, incorrectness, slovenliness, lack of intelligence. With so many and such varied implications, the term dialect needs to be used with care.
