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It is likely that the author uses the dialect to show someone who is an "outsider," that is, the author may have used the dialect to show a character who does not belong to the place where the story takes place and this affects the history by showing contrasts and diversity. This is because the dialect is the term that represents a different form of language and communication that people from different regions present.
I'd been to public entertainments before, of course; I'd been to the cinema and the pantomime and to see my mother sing in the chorus of the White Horse Inn at the Town Hall. But that was different.
