The patois of medical doctors is sometimes difficult for patients to understand. From LearnThat.org.
Below them, in Cajun patois, he painted the slogan. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Matt sang bouncy little ditties in Creole patois or Caribbean dialect. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
(That this mighty maternal figure speaks a Yiddish patois is an unlooked-for bonus.). From Wordnik.com. [Hobbes in the Himalayas] Reference
The mere fact that you know the word patois shows that you must be mighty well educated. From Wordnik.com. [Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge] Reference
Along the way, there are variations described as patois, creoles, pidgins, etc. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BLACK ENGLISH.] Reference
The country people here all speak a patois, and the fromager is not communicative. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
Some Anglophiles on the island call patois "lazy English" and dismiss it as a vernacular. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Portuguese patois which is so common in the Straits Settlements. From Wordnik.com. [The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace] Reference
So, part of my early childhood, from age 3 to age 6, was based in a setting where I learned to speak "patois" English. From Wordnik.com. [Toning Down My Professorial Tone: Or, Trying Not to be Perceived as an Intellectual Snob] Reference
Speakers and linguists may differ in their intuitions about what it creole or 'patois' and what is not. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
He asked me, in French (so curiously pronounced that I thought I had hit upon a new kind of patois), my name, and whence I came. From Wordnik.com. [Curious, if True Strange Tales] Reference
'patois', I will give a taste of what I can hear most mornings …. it runs something like this. From Wordnik.com. [Charon QC] Reference
The title is Jamaican patois for "What's wrong with them?". From Wordnik.com. [Wah Do Dem] Reference
Here dwelt a family who spoke English, -- not a patois, but. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
At home, the family spoke Armenian and a patois all its own. From Wordnik.com. [A Local Life: Harold M. Keshishian, 81, the expert's expert on rugs and carpets] Reference
He only spoke in the patois, which Frank understood very well. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
"I ha no gonfidence," he would say, in his hoarse Swiss patois. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The man spoke in the patois of the island, a kind of old Norman. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
His accent is the flat patois of the Midwest, not a Texas twang. From Wordnik.com. [Drilling for Answers] Reference
Gullah, their West African-English patois, bewildered outsiders. From Wordnik.com. [An Island's Vanishing Culture] Reference
It is written in the charming Nimois patois, and runs thus in its first few lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
And on the threshold with another smile, using that time a term of patois common in. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The boy -- I did not even know his name -- nodded, with a torrent of sullen patois. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
Be gentle with lol katz and the odd new jargons, patois and formulations that arise from the net. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Hari: Stephen Fry, British Polymath: A Twinterview] Reference
In their patois mixing Vietnamese and French, Saigonese talk incessantly of lam affaires, or dealmaking. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Saigon Virus: It's Catching] Reference
The peasants call the place by some name sounding in their patois like Chavousse; it cannot, however, be mistaken. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
But in "Boom Bye Bye," a new hate-hit by 19-year-old Buju Banton, the vile bile is shrouded in the cloak of Jamaican patois. From Wordnik.com. [Here's a Record We Don't Need] Reference
Young Cajuns now learn their grandparents 'swamp-French patois in school and take up accordions as well as electric guitars. From Wordnik.com. [The Voices Of America] Reference
We were struck, by-the-by, more than once during this day's route, by the Spanish and Italian terminations of the Provençal patois. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
It is a sugary patois that calls to mind Joseph Epstein on Carl Sandburg: "Cliches run through his verse like calories through cheesecake.". From Wordnik.com. [Washington's Works Of Art] Reference
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