Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesRelating to a mesolect.
I prepared the three Matched Guise samples myself, controlling the forms carefully to represent basilectal, mesolectal, and acrolectal levels of usage
1985, Nessa Wolfson, Joan Manes, Language of Inequality, →ISBN, page 158
Origin
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