Dialect
The Invisible Man
by H. G. Wells

The Invisible Man: Dialect 1 key example

Dialect
Explanation and Analysis—The Dialect of Iping:

Most of the characters in the town of Iping speak in dialect. Their accent is meant to convey how they live in a more rural culture than other characters. For example, the residents of Iping say the following things: “Ow do?” instead of "How do you do?", "wim" instead of "women," and “You gart whad a wand?” instead of "You got what I want?" These heavy accents are not just hard to understand from a modern-day or American perspective—they would have been difficult for the majority of Wells’s contemporary British readers as well.