Thank You, M’am
by Langston Hughes

Thank You, M’am: Dialect 1 key example

Dialect
Explanation and Analysis—Harlem in the 1950s:

One of the ways that Hughes adds a sense of realism to his story is by having Mrs. Jones and Roger speak in dialect. Specifically, he tries to capture the speech patterns of Black residents of Harlem, New York in the 1950s by changing the traditional spelling and grammar in dialogue between his two characters.