In Mark Twain’s, “ The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Twain uses clever and colloquial diction to give an authenticity to the dialogue of the story. He does this through the story telling of his old friend Simon Wheeler. It is said that he can go on and on when telling the story about him and his good friends.Twain expresses heavily on the dialect of the characters to make them come to life. The first of many ways Twain shows us where the characters are from is when he writes, “feller” instead of fellow, “reg’lar” instead of regular, and “Dan’l” rather than Daniel. By doing this Twain gives an inside of how people would speak and sound in the old west. The image the reader gets is that some of the characters may be uneducated