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English
Etymology
From dialectal + -ly.
Adverb
dialectally (comparative more dialectally, superlative most dialectally)
- In a dialectal way.
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 136:[...] (though dialectally e.g. in Northern British English while is used like until in (71), so that ‘Iʼll wait while tomorrow afternoonʼ means ‘Iʼll wait until tomorrow afternoonʼ).
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