Question

Which sentence contains an example of dialect?

A. "One at a time, one at a time,' laughed Dr. Livesey."

B. "Now, I tell you, Hawkins: if you like, I'll take you along."

C. "'Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest,' he cried."

D. "'Now, then, if Jim is agreeable, we'll open the packet'; and he laid it before him on the table."

And if you do happen to answer, could you maybe explain how it is a dialect? Also, the answer I think it may be is: C. (That's it lol) I think that because he called them aloft and shirking lubbers. The rest of the answers look normal.

Answer 1

It is C. It is C because it uses specific lexical or syntactical elements that are not considered to be the standard. This is a Pirate dialect, and people who are not pirates, or weren't pirates at that time, couldn't understand what a "shirking lubber". You were correct when you said "normal" because normal in this sense means that it is a grammatically correct standardized version of English.

Answer 2

C. "'Search him, some of you shirking lubbers, and the rest of you aloft and get the chest,' he cried."