" designing " dialects the following appeared in a recent theater program : " k . c . ligon ( dialects ) de signed the dialects for mccarter 's productions of the matchmaker , cat on a hot tin roof . . . . . " i ' ve never encountered the term " designed " as applied to dialec ts or to dialect coaching in the theater . is this a common usage among linguistis ? sam glucksberg ( samg @ pucc . princeton . edu )