| 单词 | patois |
| 例句 | The melodic, swooping movement of her Jamaican patois was quickly replaced by the more stable cadences of American English. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I knew the relaxed patois of the South Side and the high-minded diction of the Ivy League, and now on top of that I spoke Lawyer, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But I insisted, and so the thumping twangy bass noise resumed, and over it, a light baritone chanting in Caribbean patois to the rhythms of a nursery rhyme, or a playground skipping-rope jingle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They were together constantly, it seemed; they finished each other’s sentences, they talked in a patois of inside jokes and shared references that sometimes she barely understood. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In that moment, he even sounded the same, his patois the same as it always was. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He had a funny new accent that was more lilt and twang than patois. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Maybe you’ve traveled to Jamaica and know that it has some roots in the Jamaican dialect, patois. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z There was a faint twang in his voice, a hint of a patois that might have been West Indian. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Where Busch never stints is in the diamond precision of the overripe patois, studded with boneyards, gin blossoms, the clap and the “agony box.” Review: Camp and Compassion in ‘The Confession of Lily Dare’ 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z In places, she barely even relies on words, truncating her syllables past patois to something far less exact. Review: Rihanna, Blissfully Adrift, Juggles Styles on ‘Anti’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z At the end of “Grade 8” he rapped a verse of Lil’ Kim’s “Lighters Up,” and his dancehall-influenced fake patois on the autobiographical “You Need Me, I Don’t Need You” was nimble and also dizzying. Music Review: Ed Sheeran at the Mercury Lounge 2012-02-02T23:20:55Z If his language was French, he could also speak the patois of working-class Arabs. Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review 2012-11-14T08:00:01Z Most of the characters talk in the faux patois of the wannabe black, including, curiously, the black character. Tonight's TV highlights: 2010-10-06T23:04:00Z But it matches the patois of Bloomberg TV, which celebrates profit and tries to humanize the markets. The TV Watch: On Bloomberg TV?s ?Titans at the Table? Tycoons Eat and Dish 2012-02-27T23:40:15Z On the flip side, his jokey patois and fiery temper tantrums left some wondering whether he was inflamed with rage or just pulling your leg. Remembering the Marvelous, Maddening Mario Buatta 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z And sometimes she’s inflecting more than singing, especially when she slips into fake patois, as on “Hard to Get.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-04T22:04:46Z On “Black Spasmodic,” Phife floats with his West Indian patois, effortless and cocky, his mouthing tangling slang and reinforcing his legacy one final time. Against all odds, A Tribe Called Quest delivers one final masterpiece 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “It’s helping little by little,” he said in an interview, speaking through a translator in a patois of his native Kikongo and French. Chocolate Sculpture, With a Bitter Taste of Colonialism 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z And note how Ms. Minaj sounds as comfortable as ever shifting between snide rapping, restrained singing, light patois and more. The Playlist: Kendrick Lamar Backs Up His Boasts 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z O’Hara exclaimed in her signature Moira accent — a mid-Atlantic patois in which certain syllables are inexplicably elongated and others abruptly cut off. The Rise of ‘Schitt’s Creek’ 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z His dialogue tends to be sharp, rhythmic, funny, menacing, forever evolving from traditional patois to the latest schoolroom slang, reinventing itself in newly bastardised forms. Roy Williams: Confessions of an uncool kid 2010-06-07T20:31:00Z She is known to deliver a bawdy and explicit performance in her Jamaican patois. The Grammys Are on Sunday. She’s Already Won. 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z On atmospherics, “The Whalebone Theatre” is absolute aces, to borrow the patois of the Americans who drop in for cultural contrast, new-moneyed and loud. Bright Young Things, Revisited: War Clouds a Childhood Idyll 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Lester also speaks in a patois so indecipherable that the movie was shown at Venice with English subtitles. Postcards from Venice, Previews of Toronto 2013-09-06T15:46:17Z Exclamation points, interrobangs and innumerable French diacritics were all part of his patois. Review: ‘Paul Swan Is Dead and Gone,’ but First, He’s Dévastaté 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z As Rogen and Goldberg recalled in a BuzzFeed interview, Robinson’s character was originally called “Uncle Tom’s Rice” and spoke in “an unmistakable plantation patois.” “Sausage Party”’s race problem: This “equal opportunity offender” is just plain offensive 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Populating the novel is the usual cast of characters, foremost among them the cop shop’s inimitable secretary, Agatino Catarella, who blends obsequiousness, prudery and verbal ineptitude into a patois all his own. Review | Montalbano says farewell in the lovably quirky novel ‘Riccardino’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z It takes a while for the ear to get used to Ives' verse, which is clever and knotty and peppered with anachronisms in our own patois, like "soccer mom." Highly engaging low farce in 'The Heir Apparent' at ICT 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Rabe wrote this tricky patois into the script, so dialect coach Richard Tatum has instructed the cast in its distinctive phonemes, and they work very hard at them. 'In the Boom Boom Room' piles on misery with unrelenting punch 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z His command of patois is so reliable that Americans will swiftly catch on: “sufferah” bad; “kriss” good. ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ cuts a swath across Jamaican history Milch wrote Swearengen’s dialogue with such verve and masterful vulgarity that it even inspired one of this fine publication’s former TV critics, Heather Havrilesky, to weave entire columns in its divinely abrasive patois. “Deadwood” fans, rejoice: the movie is alive at HBO!…But so is “Confederate” 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Maybe it was their "swamp talk," a giddy combination of Southernisms, black dialect and Cajun patois. Trailblazing 'Pogo' comic strips celebrated 2011-12-19T17:18:03Z Upon the landlords' departure, they would milk their cows a second time, and with this richer, creamier milk, they made a cheese whose name stems from the local patois "reblocher," meaning "to milk again." What’s the (cheesy, bacony) way to say “hygge” in French? 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Her accent – a mixture of patois, cockney, American and German – summed up her transient lifestyle. Ari Up obituary 2010-10-21T17:49:00Z They spoke many times, and Malcolm was granted access to meetings in which she found herself marooned on the little island of Fisher’s executives, with its strange corporate patois. In the Hands of Janet Malcolm, Journalism Becomes Art 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z In the patois of idealized consumerism that has become common in the 21st century, he refers to Lululemon loyalists — employees and customers — as “the collective.” Lululemon’s Kumbaya Capitalism 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z He is clean now, but the 29-year-old got in trouble again earlier this year when he accompanied his parents to the Golden Globes and spoke in Jamaican patois on the red carpet. Rita Wilson on coronavirus and choloroquine: ‘I was so ill I could hardly stand’ 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z After the non-success of my Yale volume, “Some Trees,” I found myself living in France, no longer on that Fulbright, and no longer supported by the odd but oddly supportive waves of our national patois. John Ashbery: By the Book 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z They're in street clothes, but from their loose postures and colorful New York patois, they are instantly recognizable as the semi-shady, thoroughly lovable gamblers of "Guys and Dolls." For Mary Zimmerman, overseeing 'Guys and Dolls' at the Wallis, it starts with imagination 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z He asked everyone to speak their natural patois rather than English. Jimmy Cliff and Carl Bradshaw on The Harder They Come 2012-08-20T17:20:20Z He emerged as a symbol of racial pride, crossing Tin Pan Alley gentility with street patois, and sometimes singing directly about black frustrations. Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Her vowels were nasal, her patois unmistakably Brooklyn; she had a gorgeous, frankly Semitic face. Review: How Streisand Became a Symbol, by Neal Gabler 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z They protested the trailer’s absence of Singlish, the patois prominently featured in the book. ‘It’s not a movie, it’s a moment’: Crazy Rich Asians takes on Hollywood 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Both actors are excellent, building complex characters from the rough urban patois that Ms. Nwandu provides without getting purple, even while approaching a kind of street poetry. Review: Waiting for Po-Po in a Searing ‘Pass Over’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Your line delivery in “Her Smell” is this bizarre combination of punk patois, Shakespearean grandeur and manic rambling. Elisabeth Moss Has a Reputation for Darkness. ‘Her Smell’ Is No Exception. 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Belying its old-timey name, which is derived from local patois for "potato," tartiflette has a relatively modern history, dating to the 1980s. What’s the (cheesy, bacony) way to say “hygge” in French? 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Smiley united the cockney with the Jamaican patois. Smiley Culture remembered by Dennis Bovell and David Rodigan 2011-03-16T14:14:12Z “The patois of the characters, the love of language that permeates the whole film, makes it very much of a piece with their other films, but it is the least ironic in many regards.” Film: The Coen Brothers, Shooting Straight 2010-12-10T19:26:00Z She has a song called “Only Woman DJ With Degree,” and on “Bam Bam” she sings in a birdlike patois, “I’m a lady / I’m not a man / m.c. is my ambition.” Song of the Summer: Sister Nancy’s “Bam Bam” 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z A discussion breaks out about the use of patois in the book. Wandsworth jail reading group: 'Here, they don't have to be prisoners' 2013-01-15T15:30:01Z It was written by a man from my country, set in my capital city, using the Hiberno-English patois that I speak. Bloomsday: a rare chance to feel good about being Irish 2012-06-16T09:59:01Z “Paris Is Burning,” released in 1991, was largely responsible for bringing the patois of the ball scene to the culture at large. The Extravagant Life of Hector Xtravaganza 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Residents descend on market days, as louche Australian graphic designers and matriarchs in headscarves haggle with men hawking their wares in a loud Turkish-German patois. 36 Hours in Berlin 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Her lyrics are interesting, too: fluid, ambiguous, hard to decipher, they mix up gangsta talk – "Some some some I murder" – with patois, London slang, silliness, personal observation. MIA: 'I'm here for the people' 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z I am always telling him to talk properly, but when I get mad, I talk in patois: "Shuttup and come dung ere, man!" The secrets of long-term love 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z In our shared patois, these syllables contain multitudes, stories within stories — none remotely interesting or worthy of elaboration, but all pointing to the fact that we’ve invented our own language. Looking for a Book to Read With Friends? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z And he did so in the patois of a rabid Boston sports fan. How is Trump winning over Massachusetts Republicans? He speaks their language. 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z His book for “West Side Story” was notable for its stylized argot, which sounded like the scrappy talk of street toughs but was largely his own original patois. An Appraisal: Scrappy Papa of the Ultimate Stage Momma 2011-05-06T22:19:02Z Chunks of Mr. James’s novels, especially “Seven Killings,” are written in Jamaican patois. Marlon James’s New Novel Is ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Still, this is a movie that prioritizes language—Wilson’s poetic, furious patois of black working-class Pittsburgh, a gift to actors like Washington and Viola Davis. Oscar Spotlight: The Screenplays 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Their verbal battles, waged at maximum volume in a raw Quebec patois, would singe any viewer’s ears. Review: Xavier Dolan's Mommy: The Fireworks of Family Love and Pain 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Smith’s vocabulary, which mixes North London vernacular and Jamaican patois, may be one problem. Review: In ‘The Wife of Willesden,’ a Literary Marriage Falters 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z There's the salty patois of seasoned sailors, the pompous self-righteousness of the corrupt traders, and the error-strewn English of the Japanese translators. 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet': David Mitchell's Japan-set historical novel 2010-07-16T22:43:00Z Most peculiar is the reggae patois she slips into on “Every Girl Like Me” and the single “Stuck Like Glue.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z Part of what makes “Work”—a light dancehall single featuring Drake—so appealing is lyrical obscurity, the words delivered in such a slack patois that you can hear whatever it is you wish to hear. Rihanna’s Anti-Album 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z “The main cast also comprises non-Singaporean actors who mostly speak in western accents,” he said, alluding to vetoed attempts by local members of the cast to include more “Singlish”, a form of local patois. Where are the brown people? Crazy Rich Asians draws tepid response in Singapore 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z She easily adopted the bohemian fashion, the hip patois and the relaxed moral attitudes of this emerging culture. Fran Landesman obituary 2011-08-10T15:37:01Z He delivers his verse in Jamaican patois and tells of the experience of being an Afro-Caribbean in London. African beats come to London, with help from Brazil 2012-06-15T11:38:39Z Much of the dialogue in “Here Comes the Sun” is written in this patois. Review: In ‘Here Comes the Sun,’ a Hustle to Thrive in Jamaica 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z He is comfortable with the business of promotion: An affable speaker, he is familiar with the patois of fandom and is adept at generating buzz through the nerd mafia of like-minded collaborators. In ‘Redshirts,’ John Scalzi Gives Expendables a Life 2012-07-06T22:52:40Z But Waller spoke in a lower-class patois without apology and he talked directly to that stratum. Jason Moran, Meshell Ndegeocello find their own way to honor Fats Waller Simple Plan, a band who are to Sum 41 what Shandy Bass is to MD 20/20, were not suffering from a lack of hackneyed patois in their FM pop. This week's new tracks 2012-08-17T23:05:28Z Student also audited the section on dancehall, and attempts a Jamaican patois on “Lady Patra,” which, in the broader context of immersion here, is less egregious than it might otherwise be. New Music: New Albums by Iggy Azalea, Kelis and Glen David Andrews 2014-04-21T22:02:03Z Although he was galvanized by the pace and patois of the metropolis, Mr. Leonard lived quietly beyond the city’s reach. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z Part of the Minions’ ostensibly universal charm lies in the fact that they speak no known language, but rather a chirpy, vaguely Spanish-inflected patois. Review: ‘The Secret Life of Pets’ Amuses, but Misses Opportunities 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z In a an adopted patois over clanging reggae guitars, Styrke describes waking up from society’s brainwashing and rebelling against the men of the “empire” that try to put her in a box. Tove Styrke's 'Kiddo' Is a Feminist Pop Triumph 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z He is very funny, knows a lot about the crown court and speaks rapidly in an accent that shifts between Jamaican patois and traditional cockney, depending on who he’s talking to. A month of meaningful conversation: my quest to befriend a new person every day 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The ones whose regional patois still so closely mimics language and dialect rhythms from the communities that emerged throughout slavery. The Profound Significance of ‘High on the Hog’ 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z It served as a pop-culture preview and barometer of fashion, hairstyles and urban patois. Don Cornelius took 'Soul Train' on pioneering trip 2012-02-01T20:32:12Z “Hello, hello,” he said, in his trademark British patois. Meet Alexander Gilkes, Co-Founder of Paddle8, an Online Auction House 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z But the new book wades into the immigrant experience and uses patois to make Lola’s voice vivid. Cornering the Market on Nanny Novels 2010-07-13T22:34:00Z “There’s a peculiar kind of — what would you call it? — patois, like Okie jargon,” he said. Ed Ruscha: He Up and Went Home 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z The Walcott children spoke a local patois that was a blend of English and French, derived from the two colonial powers that settled St. Lucia. Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Cutting a lovelorn swath through 1960 Brooklyn in search of his Juliet, Romeo Montague is as charming as ever, with his courtly manner and his embroidered speech so different from the local patois. Review: In ‘Romeo & Bernadette,’ It’s Off to Brooklyn for This Tale of Joy 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z He does reggae no favors with his halfhearted attempts at patois. Critic’s Notebook: New Releases by Snoop Lion and Will.i.am. 2013-04-24T22:12:47Z Iggy Azalea is the outlier: a white female Australian who speaks and raps in a ridiculous ghetto patois and is responsible for the biggest hit of the bunch, her "Fancy." Made in America lineup is a vivid look at rap's competing interests 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Some people don't understand every thing we say, because not everybody's first language is English, let alone patois. Meet the female MCs bringing 'gyal power' to dancehall 2013-07-18T17:32:26Z His lyrics, like Fela’s, juggle English and Nigerian languages and patois, as he offers African pride and straightforward history lessons along with tales of night life and romance. 5 Grammy Artists You Need to Hear 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The soundtrack: a mix of English, Spanish, hip-hop argot, Jamaican patois, Portuguese — or was that Papiamentu, Curaçao’s native Creole? With Cura?ao?s Music, You Can Hear the Cultural Mix 2012-03-16T21:28:10Z The stanzas moved to Dante’s terza rima, but the poem began in patois: “This is how, one sunrise, we cut down them canoes.” In Praise of Derek Walcott’s Epic of the Americas 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z His patter tends to be less understandable than his patois – even the St Andrews cross bearing bravehearts were straining to catch his mumbled observations. Paolo Nutini 2010-06-16T12:07:00Z Capped with a fez, speaking some sort of French patois, Mitchell brings his own campy aura to the movie, including the portentous punchline: “Choice is a Western concept.” ‘Force of Circumstance’: Casablanca in the East Village 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Over the past two years, Evans has mostly adapted to that patois, while nudging it further open with his own loopy, full-blooded style. 8 Things to Do This Halloween Weekend 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z She invents and consistently employs an engaging patois for Lucien, who acts as narrator, developing what Henry James would have deemed a “casual hint” into a rip-roaring tale. Fictional Glimpses of the Past: From the Tudors to the Czars 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z “When we are taking our business out in the public, that’s not how you are supposed to speak,” he said of patois. Marlon James’s New Novel Is ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The show served as a pop-culture preview and barometer of fashion, hairstyles and urban patois. Don Cornelius: TV's pioneer of soul 2012-02-02T04:23:04Z You’ll occasionally notice coiled rhythms and minor scales that recall Jewish folk music, but chatter in the patois of contemporary jazz. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z He rose to prominence as a performer in 2003 with the song “New Millennium,” which featured his trademark intricately constructed polysyllabic rhymes delivered in densely coded patois — the diametric opposite of mainstream hits. Music: Managing a Brand He Made Himself 2011-06-16T15:19:38Z The challenge facing him now, Mr. Hyde Pierce said, is to populate the play with actors who speak with a New York patois and would seem to fit naturally into a Runyonesque world. ArtsBeat: Running Wilde: A Gangster Version of 'Earnest,' Directed by David Hyde Pierce 2012-03-01T15:17:33Z The number of dialects, patois and vernacular languages — including Basque, Occitan, and Breton — reflect the multifaceted diversity of the country. Why your next vacation should be in France 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z She captures the patois of the grooms, the hot-walkers, the touts, and describes the horses as vividly as about her human characters. Writer Races to Victory From Way Off the Pace 2010-12-16T21:39:33Z He said it was the result of karma, though in his strange New York patois it sounded more like “Kramer.” Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Kvetch Their Way to Broadway 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The sea was there, and the hills, and bartenders, housekeepers and porters speaking English salted with patois, exclaiming, “Milady, milady, welcome!” Jamaica, Beyond the Beach 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Nobody knows her way around a patois or a flat A quite like Sarah Jones. How to Master an Accent 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Valdez conceived El Pachuco as the embodiment of the outrageously stylish young batos he used to spot around town, who spoke a Cantinflas-meets-Raymond-Chandler patois called caló and jitterbugged at clubs from Boyle Heights to Bakersfield. By exploring LA's racial injustice, Luis Valdez's 'Zoot Suit' gave birth to Chicano theater 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Online is really the only place DeSantis makes sense — in front of real people, he sounds like he's speaking in some sort of extra-terrestrial corporate patois. Ron DeSantis — like Elon Musk's Twitter — is really the second choice 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z When a player fumbled an easy ground ball or stopped running halfway to second base, Mr. Ryuzaki jokingly cursed him out in a salty yakuza patois. What’s a Japanese Mobster to Do in Retirement? Join a Softball Team. 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z I understood the patois pocked with abbreviations — low pulse ox, ST elevations — and terms like hypoxia, tachycardia, and soft blood pressure spoken around me. When an ER doctor becomes an ER patient 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Corbin’s story comes through without self-consciousness and in his own language, a language that isn’t the vernacular of the generic streets but the patois of those of us who grew up in Black Los Angeles. Commentary: The brutal but deeply touching true story behind one of L.A.’s most celebrated chefs 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Even before viewers digest the essential truths about restaurant life that “The Bear” captures, they’re immersed in the visual patois of a professional kitchen. Review | ‘The Bear’ subverts tropes and brings a restaurant kitchen to life 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z However, he's so immersed in this stuff that online is really the only place DeSantis makes sense —- in front of real people, he sounds like he's speaking in some sort of extra-terrestrial corporate patois. Ron DeSantis — like Elon Musk's Twitter — is really the second choice 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z There is pride in Cantonese, the patois of Hong Kong, rather than the Mandarin of the mainland. ‘Everything in Hong Kong Has Changed’: A Road to Reinvention 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Drake is pop music’s most famous genre burglar — from U.K. grime to drill to Afrobeats and Jamaican dub patois. What you need to know about Drake's new sadboi rave album, 'Honestly, Nevermind' 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Dozens of people gathered on Tuesday outside the British High Commission in Kingston, singing traditional Rastafarian songs and holding banners with the phrase "seh yuh sorry" - a local patois phrase that urged Britain to apologise. Jamaica PM tells British royals island nation wants to be independent 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Dozens of people gathered outside the British High Commission in Kingston, singing traditional Rastafarian songs and holding banners with the phrase "seh yuh sorry" - a local patois phrase urging Britain to apologize. Jamaicans protest for slavery reparations ahead of visit by British royals 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z “Everything annoy me,” she says in her heavy patois. Review | ‘Moon Witch, Spider King’ revisits the wondrous realm of Marlon James 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z When Corbett arrived in 2005, his long hair, black leather jacket, penchant to drink more than sacramental wine and fluency in port patois endeared him to dockworkers. A Catholic chapel at Port Newark is where longshoremen go to find an oasis 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The postings mainly took place on a Facebook page known as “I’m 10-15,” which is Border Patrol patois for “aliens in custody.” Opinion | U.S. Border Patrol agents should face much harsher punishments for racist and sexist posts 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Each of the men call out their move in the patois of the game: Perspective | Pandemic couldn’t knock down this decades-old dominoes game 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z As Mare, the Oscar winner eats hoagies and drinks Wawa coffee, all in the perfect patois of Philadelphia and its suburbs. Wawa to mark ‘Mare of Easttown Day’ with new cheesesteak 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Today’s anti-Asian racism is usually expressed in less sulfurous language — in the progressive patois of a “culture” of “diversity.” Opinion | Today’s anti-Asian racism usually disguises itself as ‘diversity’ 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The distinctive patois of southeastern Pennsylvania, heard in variations from Wilmington, Del., to South Jersey, has rarely been captured accurately onscreen, meaning it hasn’t permeated the culture the way other American accents have. How Kate Winslet nailed the accent TV fans can't stop talking about 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Altogether, those 14 words are a checkmate, voiced in Trenchard’s vulgar patois. Opinion | The context behind the fatal punchline that obscured the Lincoln assassination 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z So many of the classic Yahoo Answers threads are written in a distinct mangled keyboard patois that belongs to both elementary-aged children and hunt-and-pecking sexagenarians alike. Yahoo Answers was the most earnest place on the internet 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Back in 2020, Chet was criticized after releasing a video of himself speaking Jamaican patois on the red carpet of the Golden Globe Awards. Twitter roasts Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson’s son Chet for ‘white boy summer’ video 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z The thick patois of characters throughout the series may require some American viewers to use closed captioning. Why 'Small Axe' is the Golden Globe nominee you need to catch up on first 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z To his surprise, Harris switched into a patois inflection. The Jamaican connection 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s a malicious homophobic slur in Jamaican patois that’s offensive in any context – but especially this one. Collin Martin: 'I can’t stand up against hate if I‘m not going to stick up for myself' 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Chet went viral in January after he congratulated his famous father for accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes while using patois. Adele gets flirty video message from Tom Hanks’ son Chet, both accused of cultural appropriation 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z “I think it’s a style. It is like our patois, and these discussions are always happening when a machine like Hollywood or Disney uses our culture.” Is Shia LaBeouf in 'brownface'? Cholo role raises question of who gets to adopt whose culture 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z “The music dissolved fictitious divisions in society,” Mr. Holness said, “and somewhere between the dreadlocks, the Jamaican patois and Québécois French, the seeds of my existence were sowed, along with my future as a rebel.” The Man Striving to Be the ‘Canadian Obama’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z She picked up some patois, the distinct Jamaican dialect that blends English with African languages. The Jamaican connection 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z She was a slave woman, and Ione was expected to act and talk like a slave woman, using the kind of broken patois that blighted the full-page ads in magazines like Women’s Day and Life. Opinion | Why did it take so long to set Aunt Jemima free? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Though in English, the film is subtitled to convey the heavily accented patois spoken by the characters. Review: Rapman makes bold, startling feature film debut with London-set 'Blue Story' 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Why on earth would you sanitize the game’s patois by saying “tied” like everyone else on the planet? Fighting words: Breaking down the 7 most disputed terms in golf - Golf Digest 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Because coast-to-coast academic culture is politically homogenized, other universities are adopting identical or similar requirements of “demonstrated commitments” to this and that, including “outreach,” which presumably means something to those who speak academia’s patois. Opinion | Higher education’s mandatory political participation 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Then the man said something else, in a heavy patois. “Visitor” 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Tom Hanks’ son Chet is brushing off criticism after releasing a video of himself speaking Jamaican patois on the red carpet of the Golden Globe Awards. Tom Hanks' son brushes off cultural appropriation claims after speaking Jamaican patois at the Golden Globes 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The influences are vast and reflect the range of sounds and cultures that raised a generation of black British kids – Hus flits between pidgin English, patois and even cockney. Did you see what I done? How J Hus became the voice of young black Britain 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z He believes it's hard for some people to understand "hardcore patois" - which is a mixture of several languages, including English, spoken in Jamaica. Sean Paul: 'Language barrier' a problem for Jamaican stars 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Those values — moral arrogance, ideology-induced prejudgments, indifference to evidence — are, to continue using the progressive patois, the root causes of Oberlin’s descent beyond caricature and into disgrace. Opinion | Oberlin College had an admirable liberal past. Now, it’s a disgrace. 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z In a less Gothic vein, bars often introduced me to the patois and subcultures of a region that was never one South. Opinion | Can Bar-Stool Democracy Save America? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z On Monday he posted another video of himself leaving a juice bar where he commented on the backlash further by speaking in the patois dialect once again. Tom Hanks' son brushes off cultural appropriation claims after speaking Jamaican patois at the Golden Globes 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Throughout, Hus switches style like a boxer switches stance, murmuring in pidgin and patois before breaking into strait-laced English during the final verse. Did you see what I done? How J Hus became the voice of young black Britain 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Thousands of residents were killed in months of heavy fighting, and tens of thousands fled, taking with them the city’s local patois and memories of its more cosmopolitan past. Iraqis amid Mosul’s silent ruins fear the loss of a dialect 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Then he ends up writing a whole novel in a virtuosic patois, conjured out of slavery’s erasures, or giving his novel seventy different first-person narrators, one of whom is a ghost. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z It featured lyrics about a "skeng" - a patois term for a knife or gun. J Hus's toxic relationship with east London 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z This person just heard “ragamuffin”, made an association with Jamaican patois and took that to mean the guy was being racist, which I think in itself might be quite racist. Romesh Ranganathan: ‘I’ll stop talking about race when I stop experiencing racism’ 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z If you do not understand the peculiar patois spoken by the academy’s administrators, try listening with more integrity. Opinion | The cult of fragility on college campuses 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The now reliably woke, Sir Elt once asked “Island girl, what you wanting with the white man’s world?” and adopted cod patois. Penis ridicule and power pop: 15 songs we'd rather never hear again 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z In New York, Yiddish-isms mixed with neighborhood lingo, creating a patois. Opinion | Where Does Rabbi Voice Come From? 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z He frames the struggle in the Silicon Valley patois of contrarianism. Every Generation Gets the Beach Villain It Deserves 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “Dat just how dey do,” was the refrain I heard, in patois laced with resignation. How the Trump administration went easy on small-town police abuses 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z It was interesting to hear from those who spoke patois, while others spoke with London accents. The mixed-race experience: 'There are times I feel like the odd one out' 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z The influential artist epitomizes what it means to render the voice an instrument, so even when some may struggle to understand the patois, the very sound of his vocals is a rhythm unto itself. 4 shows to catch in the Washington area over the next several days 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z In patois and in mood, the game manages to be both dystopian and comic, dark and light. How Fortnite Captured Teens’ Hearts and Minds 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Word, mon, it’s time to pepper your prose with a little patois when you pay a visit and dig in. Young restaurateurs bring Jamaican cuisine to Vermont 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Miss Red was born in Israel to Moroccan-Polish parents but, with her girlish patois, she sounds more like she was brought up in a Kingston ghetto. 50 great tracks for June from Christine and the Queens, Playboi Carti, the 1975 and more 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Imus was known for his crude patois and ruthless takedowns of politicians. Michelle Wolf wasn’t the first to shock a media dinner. Stephen Colbert and Wanda Sykes, anyone? 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z After the revolution of 1789, nationalist bureaucrats in Paris were determined to squash Occitan, just like other regional tongues, which they dismissed as vulgar patois. Occitan's fight to stay away from the cliff of extinction 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z It was, in the patois of the moment, mind-blowing. 1968: the year that changed America 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Read Rabelais, he says, to see that French itself was built on patois and vernacular tongues. Emmanuel Macron wants to redefine French culture 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Those unfamiliar with creoles, thinking them mere patois, argot or vernacular, are missing a glorious display of the ingenuity of those speakers who turned old languages into something brilliantly new. The painful origins of many creole languages 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z His “Brand New” has a “Shape of You” feel and there’s sometimes a distinct Drake whiff to him, especially on “Going On” with a borrowed Jamaican patois. Review: Craig David rewinds the years with great comeback 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Pope’s advice to poets, “the sound must seem an echo to the sense,” comes to life in the New Yawk patois of this New Yorker’s White House. Opinion | Thank you, Steve Bannon 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z You can hear echoes of her upbringing in her confident, inventive songs, which combine dancehall patois, grime verses, and honeyed R&B vocals. Brits Critics' Choice list is all-female 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z In both music and regular conversation, she enjoys playing with accents, offering up valley girl-speak or island patois. Nicki Minaj, Always in Control 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z No longer is the promise simply extra income: In its place is a rhetoric that reads like a patois of pseudo-empowering marketplace feminism with a tinge of gig economy side hustle-speak. MLM Sellers Boast About #Hustle, But Rely on Relationships 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z In it he raps, sings, uses his falsetto, employs patois slang, backs off for the odd guitar solos and uses a full orchestra for three tracks. Review: Jamaica reggae star Chronixx makes stunning debut 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z But he has his own absurdist patois of banality and metaphysics, wrapped around a muted critique of how detached Americans are from each other and how we can’t come to grips with mortality. Review: ‘The Realistic Joneses’ poses big questions but offers few answers 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z His island patois is pitch perfect, and throughout his distinctive vocals add to the set’s charm. Review: ‘CHUCK’ is a fitting farewell from pioneer Berry 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Yet, those words universalized problems that were not universally shared, hence the ability of Ronald Reagan to change the language back to the uplifting patois of the 1950s, with equally distorting results. Pay attention to Donald Trump's actions, not his words | Zachary Karabell 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z The organization’s president, Richard Aborn, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office, speaks more in the patois of Silicon Valley than in the jargon of policing. Stepped-Up Raids, but Gang Violence Persists 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Even if using dialect, or patois, or Dublinese, you must realise that there is a reader at the end of the sentence. So you want to be a writer? Essential tips for aspiring novelists 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The patois of the lower precincts was his native tongue. Columnist Jimmy Breslin, bard of the New York streets, dies at 88 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Puzzles were an essential part of Mr. Smullyan’s patois — a logician’s way of greeting and testing people. Raymond Smullyan, Puzzle-Creating Logician, Dies at 97 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z “You have questions, I have the answers,” she would intone knowingly in her Jamaican patois, before singing out the words that would become her signature catchphrase: “Call me now!” The Lives They Lived 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The lovable Kat and friends spouted philosophy and jokes in a patois of slang, Spanish, Shakespearean verse and a jumble of syntax, word play and erratic spelling. ‘Krazy’: the secret worlds of George Herriman, creator of Krazy Kat 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z But imagine a situation in which New Yorkers were told that their particular patois was "backwards" or "not to be encouraged". The Disappearing Dialect at the Heart of China’s Capital 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z We’ve had so much innovation, it’s hard to realize how totally out of the box it was for a crab to start singing in patois. Lin-Manuel Miranda caps a huge 'Hamilton' year with 'Moana' 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Bolt’s voice is usually the deep baritone we hear in TV interviews, but can leap to a comic falsetto squeal when he jokes around, particularly when he breaks into patois to talk to NJ. Usain Bolt: ‘I feel good because I know I’ve done it clean’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Mojo’s reviewer was even moved to patois: “This is Oasis’s World Domination Album. Dem a come fe mess up de area, seeeeeeeeerious.” ‘Flattened by the cocaine panzers’ – the toxic legacy of Oasis’s Be Here Now 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z No uplift, no patriotic patois, no morning in America — not even a quick quip broke up the sequential references to a country falling apart at the seams. Trump tries to echo Reagan, but leaves out an essential element: Optimism 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z “Lunatic fringe” was his characterization of a group of avant-garde artists before it migrated to political patois. Hurricane Hermine, SpaceX, Mother Teresa: Your Friday Briefing 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Who assumes other people’s voices, accents, patois, and distinctive idioms? Lionel Shriver's Controversial Cultural Appropriation Speech 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z I sat at her kitchen table with her mother and sister and cousins and they spoke and laughed all around me in a fast moving patois that I only half understood. Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Recipe for a Drink the Flavor of Summer’s End 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Go through enough of these conversations, and you’ll slip into an inoffensive corporate patois, like the self-deprecating "haha" that renders requests less threatening and deflects questions about who exactly is making them. Mr. Robot’s mobile game is about the power and danger of texting 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z That he remained with the defense establishment did not mean he took a liking to every facet of it, particularly its bureaucratic patois. John W. Vessey Jr., who chaired the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the 1980s, dies at 94 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z There is a tangy patois to Sheridan’s dialogue, as when Bridges identifies a banker by saying, “That looks like a man who could foreclose on a house.” Jeff Bridges, 'Hell or High Water' and refining the modern Western 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z As she practiced movements, Hester called out in the dense patois of dressage. The Duo That Dominates Dressage 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z “This is a freedom country,” she said in English inflected with a Yiddish patois. Pool Rules: No Running, No Eating or Drinking, No Men 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Rooney’s patois is littered with such Faustian proclamations of his own mission statement, delivered in an argot that would be far more at home in a Marlowe play than a principal’s office: ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ celebrates 30th anniversary at FerrisFest in Chicago 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The IAS engaged a historian who wrote a report clotted with today’s impenetrable academic patois. A battle to save the Princeton Battlefield 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Similarly, the patois used in hip-hop was originally used to defy the same enemies, the argot defined by clever puns, rapid rhyming couplets, blink-and-you-miss-it wordplay and don’t-give-a-toss attitude set to an insistent beat. In with the in crowd: secret languages can confuse, exclude or empower 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Her inflections are the product of London's inner-city multicultural melting pot, which has morphed the traditional cockney diction into a one-size-fits-all urban patois. Adele: The full story - BBC News 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Her rhyming doesn't ape traditional dancehall cadences or borrow patois intonation, meaning she lands closer to M.I.A. than to Sister Nancy. British producer Kevin Martin transforms into a Bug. Then there's his King Midas Sound 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z He explained that the term is derived from the city’s unique Jamaican patois, which the artist has embraced in recent years — most notably on the track “Days in the East End.” The Restaurant That Got Its Name From Drake 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z There is a growing realisation that patois can’t be silenced if authentic characterisations of Jamaica and Jamaicans are to be achieved. Why Marlon James had to get out of Jamaica to win the Booker prize | André Wright 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z It has been described as a cacophony, a din of voices, telling their stories, often in patois; and in tangent, the story of the 1976 assassination attempt on the singer Bob Marley. Booker winner Marlon James: ‘I was the nerd, I wasn’t into sports, assumed gay’ 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z "This book is startling in its range of voices and registers, running from the patois of the street posse to The Book of Revelation," Wood said in a statement. Jamaican Marlon James's Bob Marley novel wins Man Booker prize 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z But Robertson and Huckabee had to do some introductions, and they learned the patois of politics. Like Trump, Ben Carson has surged ahead by being a non-politician 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z And even when Germans speak Deutsch, it is so littered with Anglicisms that purists fret about a spreading patois called Denglisch. Sprechen Sie power? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z A lot of the kids spoke a local patois called pidgin. What Surfing Teaches You About Life 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z He published secrets about people’s personal lives at a time when most newspapers did not, and his patois was his own. A Peep Inside the Former Home of Walter Winchell, America’s Top Transom Peeper 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z With this strange mélange of ornate locutions, Chicago patois, Joycean portmanteaus, and Yiddish cadences, Bellow found himself able to produce page after page of acrobatic verbal stunts: Saul Bellow’s Revenge 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Kali spoke animatedly, in a patois of geekspeak, California mellow, and slang borrowed from West Coast rap. The Man Who Broke the Music Business 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z They joked and laughed, moving effortlessly between rapid fire patois and crisp, British-inflected English. Track’s Heartbeat Is Fast as Ever in Jamaica 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The explosion of email, tweets and texting, with their patois and haiku-style snippets, has eroded what for centuries was a clear distinction between the written and the spoken. You’re 100% Wrong About Math Scores 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Unlike some earlier non-Jamaican reggae artists who adopted island patois and themes, they use the genres to highlight their own U.S. culture, not Jamaica’s. Jamaica moving to reclaim global dominance in reggae 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Beyond the temper and the patois — described by the Baltimore Sun as “a lovely specimen of East Baltimorean” — Ms. Mikulski has been an uncommonly effective lawmaker, adept at forging alliances across the aisle. Barbara Mikulski, lioness of the Senate 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Unanswered is what motivated the Dutch chimps to sound more like the Scots: to be better understood, or to fit in by adopting the reining patois? Chimps joining new troop learn its 'words': study 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z It is also regarded as a mistake to embrace teen-age patois too enthusiastically. R U There? 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z To this day, my mother’s voice and speech pattern of Jamaican patois only becomes laden with a Jamaican accent when she’s angry. Being Black Shouldn't Mean I Have to Be 'Twice as Good' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z He can do a mean Bob Dylan, an elderly Jew from his Brooklyn birthplace, a valley girl and several different varieties of Creole patois. Taj Mahal's Delta Blues Cruise 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Soon, Eggs begins to question what he is doing in the sewers with a pack of adorably troglodytic scavengers who burble and squeak in a crude, Gremlin-like patois, while he speaks the King’s English. ‘The Boxtrolls’ movie review: Intricate stop-motion animation carries a sweet story It was not just coarse: people reverted to the broadest possible local dialect; the pit and shipyard patois of their grandfathers. Scotland’s young, feisty yes generation has nowhere to go 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Both consider themselves feminists and speak in that patois, using words like empowerment and choice. Inside the Covert Abortion War “Sometimes I sit down, and I don’t know what will make me to courage,” he said in the English patois common here. ‘Don’t Touch the Walls’: Ebola Fears Infect an African Hospital 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z His profanity, however, does not sound so profane as it wafts through the air in a singsong patois that is often followed with a laugh. Colorful Trainer and Suddenly Brilliant Gelding Win the Whitney 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Breton, a Celtic language that is close to Cornish and Welsh, was historically scorned as a "patois" of the working classes, but has enjoyed a mini-revival in recent years after decades of decline. Europeans with an eye on Edinburgh 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z “Excuse me, miss, are you a D.C. voter?” he squawks in his Paterson, N.J., patois. Paul Zukerberg put attorney general on the D.C. ballot. But can he get elected? This mix of Jamaican patois, American hip-hop, Cockney classics and the coinages of youthful Londoners has added much to slang's vocabulary. 10 slang phrases that perfectly sum up their era 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z When you forget that and start to believe that — in the patois of the street — you’re ‘all that,’ it’s not long before you move back into your mother’s basement. “Not Everyone Liked Jesus, Either”: An Interview With Gene Simmons 2014-04-10T19:00:14Z The next iteration of Twitter diplomacy has arrived — one that involves augmenting, sometimes even replacing, the carefully scripted and vetted language of official State Department and White House statements with the choppy patois of Twitter. Listening Post: In the Scripted World of Diplomacy, a Burst of Tweets 2014-02-05T04:38:22Z From the regular season through the Super Bowl, English is only one patois of N.F.L. broadcasting. TV Sports: ‘The Big Picture,’ in Any Language 2014-02-03T05:03:27Z His patois was so strong that his lawyer couldn’t really understand what he said, and the border agency was going to send him back to Jamaica to be killed. What Is It Like To Be A Geek In A Prison? 2013-12-27T17:50:00Z The company’s Super Bowl spot portrayed an office worker from Minnesota speaking in Jamaican patois and exhorting his dour co-drones to “turn the frown the other way around.” German Automakers Bet on U.S. Market and Win 2013-02-04T20:24:36Z Leon Panetta, the secretary of defense, said in a memo this week that the Pentagon was starting to plan for the spending cuts, or "sequestration," as it is known in Washington patois. Military contractors wary as Defense Department prepares for fiscal cliff 2012-12-21T20:23:01Z In Washington patois, "higher revenue" means higher taxes. Obama's corporate charm offensive: wooing the Republicans' beloved base 2012-12-10T22:43:31Z Politicians speak this sporting patois just as fluently as journalists and pundits. The shared language of sport and politics 2012-09-27T23:59:27Z For patois, after reggae music is a major Jamaican cultural export to Africa. Africa viewpoint: Mugabe and the Jamaicans 2012-09-27T12:34:24Z "Me can sing, you know," says the porter in local patois, and he's right. The loudest island on the planet 2012-09-27T00:10:12Z Bernard Wolfe shouted in Jamaican patois to neighborhood buddies who were rooting for Blake in the Kingston community of Grant's Pen. Jamaicans prepare to cheer Bolt, Blake in Olympics 2012-08-05T17:04:08Z In today's East End, the children of Somali and Bangladeshi immigrants speak with Cockney accents, but their slang is as likely to come from American jargon and Jamaican patois as Cockney argot. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z Until then he spoke only the Jamaican patois, a dizzying amalgam of English, Spanish, and African languages. Bolt Upright 2012-07-16T05:00:00Z It was the first time in my life I'd been around guys talking in slang and patois – stuff that had been passed down – and I was fascinated. Racism in football: putting the boot in 2012-07-13T22:01:00Z And yes his chatter is peppered with a forced and ill-advised patois rummaged from high street bins. Jamie Oliver. You might want to hate him, but you can't help cheering 2012-07-05T14:16:26Z Historian David Starkey made reference to Jamaican patois when talking about last year's riots, cruelly reinforcing the stereotypical attitude that inner city trouble is caused by the "black kids". Olympic torch route, day 37: the Games will leave no legacy in Moss Side 2012-06-24T05:01:01Z Languages challenging English As well as English, some of Blade Runner's 2019 LA residents speak a patois mixing European and east Asian languages. Blade Runner: What has come true? 2012-06-22T09:47:19Z Amarillo Slim's gift for colorful patois was legendary. Poker icon 'Amarillo Slim' dies at 83 2012-05-01T03:26:03Z My command of the language evidently less complete than I thought: or perhaps he only speaks his own patois. Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z I did not understand one syllable of their patois, except the beginning, which was, Adieu Pierrot! Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z The boatmen woke up from their slumbers, and shouted in their patois, but there came no response from Mr. Dundyke. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z Hence it has almost sunk into a patois. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z I was not sorry; the novelty of the shifting crowd, the changing faces, the southern patois, the moving string of soldiers, peasants, workmen, women, amused me. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z We jumped out for a moment, and I walked up the bank and endeavored to make the acquaintance of a strikingly handsome woman about thirty, but the patois was quite too much. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Then, "Monsieur's sword is here," Bigot answered in his half-intelligible patois. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z We had an agreeable chat, although she spoke a patois of which I did not understand a single word. Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z Celtic ears finds the drawl of the Saxon Swell flat, And a Cockney may chaff at the patois of Pat. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 2012-03-09T03:00:20.130Z I confess I was surprised when he offered to assist me, saying very modestly, that nothing was more confusing than patois to the uninitiated, but that he had chanced to have some experience in it. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z The man rose to his knees, and cried out, 'Justice, justice, lady!' in a wild sort of way, adding something--which I could not understand, for he spoke in a vile patois--about a house. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Moreover, his patois of the cider-land was little better than German to them; their southern, softer tongue was sheer Italian to him. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Give us," he cried in a strange patois, "our man! The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z I addressed him in Spanish, but he shook his head and commenced to speak in a language which I recognised as a Portuguese patois of some description. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z They can scarcely be said to speak the English language, using a patois which is scarcely intelligible. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z It was a little difficult reading at first on account of the sort of patois, but it is a wonderful book, so weird and full of sentiment. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Not again, Monsieur!" he cried, in his vile patois, "My head is sore still. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z What she said--in French or patois, or that infant language of which no woman's tongue is ignorant--the baby could not say, for, like the horses, it could not speak. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z There was one man on the hill to the right, with whom the guide exchanged some sentences in patois. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z By long connection with the family she spoke French fairly well, whereas the negro patois, although mostly composed of French words, was almost unintelligible to him. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z Her attempt at aping fashionable London manners ends up in a scene with upper class, rural and cockney accents all mangled into one, along with a dash of something that sounds like Jamaican patois. Greedy Matron Frolics, Cavalier Swaggers, Mozart: London Stage 2012-02-03T01:36:08Z I can speak and write European in all its branches, including Swedish and Norwegian patois, and the argot used on the borders of Turkey and Greece. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 2012-01-27T03:00:22.100Z But the Old Crocans' answer, expressed at length in a patois of the country, was not audible. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The language has no right to exist save as a patois for rustic yokels. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z Gumbo, gum′bō, n. the okra or its mucilaginous pods: a soup of which okra is an ingredient, also a dish of okra-pods seasoned: Creole patois in Louisiana. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z "Hé, Césarine, it is thee, then, my little one," the old negress cried out suddenly, in her thin high voice and her muffled Haitian patois. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z "Ah, that is what the brute always does!" exclaimed the landlord in his patois of Arabic and the worst Marseillais French. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z “For those,” she said, in her French patois, “who are poorer than myself”; and hobbled away. Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City 2011-12-28T03:00:42.950Z The people generally speak a curious but not unattractive patois of French origin, known as Creole. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Proprietors of estates and elegant young ladies conversed together in the rough patois of the peasants, which to me was especially tantalizing, because it sounded so familiar, and yet was so unintelligible. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z When disturbance occurred in the theatre, Paul was not the orator put forward to appease the people—he probably could not speak their patois. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z It is very curious that this custom is remembered to the present day in the patois of the peasantry, even where the Irish language is no longer spoken. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z The weather was stormy, and misinterpreting the patois of some natives—who in reality pointed out the right way—I missed the track, and found myself under the cliffs of Monte Viso. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z It is almost incomprehensible on what ground English was selected, as French would have been as serviceable to the educated reader here, while the Anglo-Gallic patois must have proved a puzzle to all alike. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z No sooner had the doors opened than out rushed seven or eight dogs, who cast themselves upon the old greffier, uttering in every species of canine patois the loudest possible demonstrations of welcome. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z He might as well have done a soft shoe around the bar while speaking in that share cropping era Southern patois typically reserved for Disney crows. Halloween and ?disposable blackness? 2011-10-28T19:15:07Z If I do not mistake," she exclaimed, making use of the mountain patois, "I see one of my oldest friends yonder—a herdsman who used to be in my father's service! A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest 2011-10-12T02:00:51.367Z They talked together in their patois for a short time, and then the son spoke again. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z Their patois is different from Berkshire, even as the style of their houses is, and the colour of the fields. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z They speak a kind of patois, or corrupted French, but perfectly understand the modern language as spoken in Paris. Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick 2011-10-11T02:01:03.847Z Her campaign billboards — “Monkey Still Working, Let Baboon Wait Small” — plead with voters in Liberian patois to let her finish the job. Prize or Not, Liberian Faces Tough Race to Keep Office 2011-10-07T23:29:06Z The concourse thickened about the steps of the church; gesticulating men chattered in the native patois. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z They spoke in patois, which I did not understand. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z Hither and yon round the corners of the house shapeless movements hurried, there came the step of a heavy runner and the cursing of a deep voice in some Italian patois. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z The people have a patois, not quite such pure Italian as I heard at Cannes. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z A few words in his own patois and the soft voice of the white lady reassured the little savage, and he led them along a trail through the trees to a small barrio of tuba-gatherers. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Asked if her height — nearly six feet — was an advantage, Ms. Kidd chuckled and shifted to her lilting Jamaican patois: “Well, some a dem tall, but dem clumsy.” Sweat: In New York, a Caribbean Sisterhood of Netball 2011-08-27T02:39:09Z The woman went up to one of the windows and spoke with a gentleness to which I should have never thought her voice could have been attuned with its harsh patois. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z He knew the Spanish language as well as the Mexican and Indian patois; and he aided the Government in the solution of its troubles with the Indians as well as with the Mexicans and Spaniards. Colorado?The Bright Romance of American History 2011-08-25T02:00:28.183Z Yet, each place has its local patois, which no rustic abandons, for it would be deemed by his companions a most insufferable affectation. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z They speak Cree and some of the other Indian tongues, but customarily use a French patois which is easily understood. Frontier Folk 2011-08-19T02:00:11.653Z He burst out laughing, and Gr�del said, "Speak in a language I can understand; I cannot make out your patois." The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z The patois of the garage is used with full comic and realistic effect, and effervescently, culminating in the usual happy finish.”—St. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z As soon as Garibaldi saw Mazzini, he greeted him in the old patois of the lagoons of Genoa. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Together with their patois, the rustics preserve their local costumes, which mostly date from the Middle Ages. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Thus there is a double pun in the patois. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z He will speak their language, even their lingo, rather than what is to multitudes the unintelligible patois of the seminary Canaan. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z He spoke German with everybody, but it was a vile patois. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z And what conversation followed is not to be written down; it was every word of it in the delicious, stumbling patois of love. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z The pure Gauls in the Landes have not yet learned the French language, and speak a peculiar—probably their original—patois. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z The coloured Creoles of the city have themselves begun to use the term to characterize the patois spoken by the survivors of slavery days. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z French was to be no longer a hodgepodge or a patois, but the pure and perfect speech of the king and his court. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Joseph spoke all the languages of the polyglot races he governed, and was equally versed in all the various patois, though he usually conversed in German with the petitioners of higher rank. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z They continued speaking, not the Sicilian we call Italian, but the Sicilian we call patois—the Sicilian of the folk-songs. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z When I get there I am sure that my knowledge of the patois renders the chance of detection small. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z At his first interrogation he told his tale precisely as he had related it before, with these additions: the murderers spoke patois, and had purchased two bills. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages 2011-05-19T02:00:06.517Z This was said by a rough-skinned damsel—the “maid-of-all-work”—who had shown her freckled face inside the parlour door, and whose patois proclaimed her to have come from the same country as McTavish himself. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Miguel turned and rapidly harangued his followers in the Spanish patois. Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch 2011-04-14T02:00:48.280Z The angel immediately replies in excellent Gascon patois: Come, shepherds, come From your mountain home, Come, see the Saviour in a stable born, This happy morn. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z In the patois of the American prairies he is now "arrove," and, still panting for breath, is brought before the Coroner's Court, and submitted to examination. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z Its macaronic style is rendered peculiarly perplexing to the foreigner by the frequent introduction of words and phrases from the Mantuan patois. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z He had a squeaky voice and spoke a vile patois, but it sounded like no language I had ever heard. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z As late as the sixteenth of November, I note being in New York at the library getting the proper patois for Arcadia, and add with an emphasis of under-crossing, “I hate the story.” All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z But it must not be overlooked that the question in Dante's day was whether Italy should have a language or whether the nation should go on oscillating between Latin and patois. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z But only think what we lose!—a village drama in the open air, given by village amateurs in the patois of the district. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z Though not able to speak their patois, I understood much of what was said. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Although it is true that, with one exception, all the different elements have been quite assimilated, the patois spoken in some districts is barely comprehensible to the ordinary Parisian. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z Calling off the dog, Ram Deen hastened to allay the fears of the woman in the hut, who was still giving voice to her distress in the Padhani patois. The Taming of the Jungle 2011-03-23T02:00:16.887Z The involuntary hatred of patois as an outward sign of disunion has reappeared again in some of those who in our own time have done and suffered most for united Italy. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The provisional government of 1830 suppressed the official use of the Flemish language, which was relegated to the rank of a patois. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z The Baroness ponders upon the etymological derivation of a word in the patois of the country which she has fished out of the captain's torrent of invective, and repeats it to herself in an undertone. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z After muttering together in patois for a little while the guides seized their axes and suddenly commenced with great vigour to hack out a large hole in the ice. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z He speaks a French patois more fluently than English. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z "Do they speak the Berlin patois and mix up their parts of speech?" The Eichhofs A Romance 2011-02-19T03:01:37.327Z The Manx, or Celtic of Man, is even now in the last stage of dissolution; and in the Channel Isles the Norman patois of Jersey and Guernsey have largely yielded to English. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z But first she turned to Marie, and said in her patois French,— 'Do you love this man?' Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z The answer came back in patois, a bad sign in such emergencies. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z La San's patois is superior to that of the average French Negro. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z Its local tongue is a pure Romance language; something quite distinct from mere patois. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Perhaps the narration had best be given in his own piquant patois; and I shall so set it forth, as nearly as I can transcribe it from the tablets of my memory. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z Their language is of the same piebald character, being a French patois embroidered with English and Italian words and phrases. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z In the patois of the American prairies he is now “arrove,” and, still panting for breath, is brought before the Coroner’s Court, and submitted to examination. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z It was the right thing to do, and at the same time a rare joke to the Frenchmen who continued to jabber their patois. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z There was not much companionship in my conductor, who spoke a patois totally unintelligible to me, and who could only comprehend by signs. Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z “No, never!” continued the second voice, in the same tone, and in a similar patois. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z We entered forthwith into conversation; and though I had some difficulty in making out his patois, he understood my French, and we got on very well. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z When they went I said to the drug clerk—an Englishman who spoke French: "Strange that those well-dressed men should use patois." The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Fortunately, he had plenty of money, and, glory be, could speak both Spanish and the San Juan patois like a native. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z He shouted something in the patois, to which the two natives waved assent. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z Barreau spoke the tongue like a native, but there were lodges wherein neither Cree nor French patois was spoken or understood, and, when we encountered such, the wisdom of Crow Feathers smoothed the way. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Uncle Balthasar was in an ecstasy; he repeatedly proposed the health of the betrothed couple, and made them a short congratulatory speech in his comical patois. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z I began even to catch things from persons passing on the street—to distinguish French from patois—that is to say, I knew, when I understood any of it, that it was not patois. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z Singularly his close acquaintance with the San Juan patois proved most helpful. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Two days after his arrival he was nicknamed Bouillot for short, a diminutive of Crabouillot, which means in the patois "dirty." Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z He understood me readily enough, but his own spattering patois gave me a good deal of trouble. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z With ready garrulity and in the broadest Tyrolean patois, which had frequently to be explained by him to his North-German questioner, he answered all questions put to him. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z He said: "Ah, but that was not patois—that was very choice French—Parisian." The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z This is a question which can only be fully answered when all the legends in all the languages and patois of France shall have been collected and compared. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z Their dialect is a mixture of English and African, having words and phrases belonging to neither language; though the patois is not confined to this class, but is sometimes heard in sumptuously furnished parlors. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z He spoke the ordinary Canadian patois, though he evidently understood Kohl’s Parisian French quite well. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z More likely, experts suggest, is that in the Gullah patois of blacks on the Georgia coast, “Come By Here” sounded like “Kumbaya” to white ears. On Religion: Long Road From ?Come By Here? to ?Kumbaya? 2010-11-19T21:41:00Z I said she must speak some mountain patois, for we had used those same words lower down with good results. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z The preparation for the Press was made at a distance from our own library, or more references to Spanish and patois sources would have been given. Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language 2011-01-11T03:00:33.670Z In Jamaica we speak patois so people here couldn't understand me. Ben Johnson: The world will be shocked by my revelations 2010-10-04T23:06:00Z Only a few decades ago, Romansh was looked upon as the patois of the poor country yokel; today it is experiencing a tenuous rebirth thanks to grass-roots revival programs and government support. Chur Journal: In Multilingual Switzerland, One Tongue Struggles to Survive 2010-09-29T00:10:00Z Allen files many of these meetings under the rubric of "establishing unity of purpose," an example of the bureaucratic patois — phrases like "stovepipe organization" or "horizontal integration" — peppering his paragraphs. Thad Allen: Obama's Master of Disaster in the Gulf 2010-07-13T08:30:00Z Except at Penn State, of course, where the man with the thick eyeglasses and the thick Brooklyn patois keeps going, without major scandal. 2010-01-13T06:11:00Z The customs and dress of the people, who speak a patois of romaic origin, are interesting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" We proceeded past the Riffelhorn to the ridge above the G�rner glacier, from which Monte Rosa was visible from top to bottom, and where an animated conversation in Swiss patois commenced. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. In Neapolitan patois," said he, "we call all our specious but doubtful wares Ruscas! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 He demanded, with a lapse into Island patois now and again, what the blank blank blank the captain thought he was doing. Beggars on Horseback Borne through the murky grime, along that water there came now the swish of oars and the voices of men speaking in French—French strongly accentuated and in the Manche patois. In the Day of Adversity I was a Venetian, and I had had the disadvantage of sucking in with my mother's milk the use of a very agreeable and seductive patois, which however was not Tuscan. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 “What has that to do with it?” grinned Maertz, in the same patois. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 "Eh, my daughter," said the queen mother, in her Italian patois, "so you are on intimate terms with Madame de Sauve, are you?" Marguerite de Valois Then he said something in his opaque patois which only Leonie could elucidate. Love's Usuries "Their language is a strange patois," said the Professor; "it is composed of a mixture of Italian, French, Spanish, and even Arabic." Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu The use of the patois has decreased naturally in modern times. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" He spoke in the local patois, but straightway branched off into French interlarded with German when Dalroy appeared. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 Probably even the Norman patois of the modern rural deputies is the speech of the present time nearest to that in which our ancestors transacted their business. An Example of Communal Currency The facts about the Guernsey Market House A tourist addressed him, and received a reply in broad patois which he could not understand. Love's Usuries The consequence was that no patronage was extended to the vernacular, and Breton sank to the level of a patois with no unity for literary purposes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The soldiers of the Guard Royal made a rhyme which went not ill in the patois of the camp, but which goes lamely enough translated into English. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The officer, of course, spoke in German, the Walloon in the mixture of Flemish and Low Dutch which forms the patois of the district. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 In the delicious, stumbling 146 patois of love, so much was said, and so much understood that was beyond their power to reduce to mere syllables. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance He thought the rustic scenes good, but advised me to moderate the dialect, and he propounded to me his well-known views on the use of patois in fiction. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. On drawing near a great deal of talk went on between their guides and ours in patois. An Impromptu Ascent of Mont Blanc "Eh heu!" said he, accosting her familiarly in the patois of the land, "what is it? what has happened here?" Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience She spoke for a moment in patois with her husband; and then bade the servant lay another knife and fork. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. They speak a pagan tongue in Boondi, swallow half their words, and adulterate the remainder with local patois. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The discourse might go on for two hours; after which the patient could only express himself in his native patois,—a Romance idiom,—and had no recollection of his “ecstasy.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" Whispering was carried on, and, after some conversation in patois, François announced that they were not willing. An Impromptu Ascent of Mont Blanc He had spoken English, saying, however, that he was of France, and the landlord had used the patois of Alsace. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington The Provençal, which, in the poetry of the Troubadours, attained at a very early time to a high literary excellence, has now sunk down to a mere patois. Lectures on The Science of Language "No English Spoken Here," might be written over their doors, although nearly all their members elsewhere do their talking in the American patois. The Story of Chautauqua A French patois is the language of the peasantry, but English is generally understood. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" They spoke in their French patois, clipping off the first and last syllables of the words. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses After a moment's hesitation, Anne sang an island ballad in the voyageur patois. Anne Well, I found a funny little carriage, with a funny old man who did not understand my patois any better than I did his; but he understood a franc-piece. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories Considering these influences and the arbitrariness of the orthoepical rules of the language, there has been expressed surprise that frequent degenerations into uncouth dialects or patois have not occurred. Every-Day Errors of Speech This neat little vessel is now standing about west-no'th-west to pick up Point Judith light—if you'll stand for the nautical patois. The Destroying Angel A French patois is the language of the blacks. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses "But she does speak it; she always talks patois when she is alone with me." Anne Even when the guide, clinging to the door of the carriage, rattled over the story of the struggle in a patois all his own, hardly a shadow of the scene was presented to us. An American Girl Abroad When he swore—strange commentary on civilization—he always used white man's oaths, French patois or straight English. The Story of the Trapper Roezl shouted—he spoke every patois of Spanish America with equal fluency. The Woodlands Orchids In Eastern Canada, the land of patois French, a portage is a portage. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making "That is because she has no French teacher, papa; and you know I do not allow her to speak the island patois, lest it should corrupt the little she knows." Anne The Guides, being drawn from many different races of the north-west, had developed a patois of their own—a strange compound of hill dialects with Urdu and even English. Barclay of the Guides Both men spoke in the creole patois of the island. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure He must know the languages, not as scholars and grammarians know them, but in all their dialects and 'patois.' Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Alec acted as spokesman, speaking the patois of the Canuck or French Canadian fluently, while the Frenchman spoke English but little, and that very brokenly. The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp She was talking in a loud voice, and with an accent of such patois as I should much more naturally have expected in a remote faubourg than in the gilded salons of the Tuileries. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I I judged it to be some Russian patois. The Red Symbol My French is useful only in domestic economy, and even that, I fear, is very curious and much of it patois. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) Scots, though a dialect, is not a patois; it has a great and continuous literature; it combines in an extraordinary degree the consonant virtues of English and the vowel range of the Latin tongues. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Her ear was becoming better tuned each moment to his strange patois. The Silent Barrier A few words in the former patois seemed sufficient to convey them, and their answer was a cheer that made the walls ring. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I He was cute enough to read my expression, for he clutched my arm, and, pointing to the portrait, began speaking earnestly, not in the patois, but in low Russian. The Red Symbol The castle, although it is a huge place, was deserted save for a few native servants, whose patois was unintelligible to me. A Monk of Cruta Percival could speak Italian well, and understood the patois of the fishermen. Under False Pretences A Novel They were tolerably cultured men, who rose superior to patois, and spoke pure and beautiful Castilian. The Recipe for Diamonds As their owners were French, they are more inclined to use a Creole patois than English. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 I shall try to set it forth in his own piquant patois, as nearly as I can transcribe it from the tablets of my memory. Our Young Folks—Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls The man replied energetically, but in a patois utterly unintelligible. A Monk of Cruta Falsehood in a Ciceronian dialect had no opposers; truth in patois no listeners. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) They speak three popular languages fluently, and usually know some out-of-the-way tongue such as Gaelic or Albanian or a Czech patois. The Recipe for Diamonds “Be not afraid,” called one in a curious patois dialect, about five-sixths of which seemed made up of Spanish words, distorted but recognizable. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 But it was Blicher’s use of patois which delighted his countrymen with a sense of freshness and strength. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" We felt reassured, and when for a second time the guttural voice addressed us in unintelligible patois, we perceived the innocent object of this mysterious visit. The Naples Riviera It was natural that the mother and father should speak to me in their quaint French patois; and the practice of many summers had made me able to get along with it fairly well. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales He worked hard at German, which he had much forgotten since he was a boy; and, what is highly characteristic, equally hard at the patois, in which he learned to excel. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 Low German does not necessarily mean a vulgar patois. Notes and Queries, Number 216, December 17, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Even after many years of association with English speaking persons, he speaks a French patois, and his story was interpreted by a Beaumont French teacher. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 Beneath, in patois, is the doggerel: Beautifully blue is the sea, But my heart aches in me, And my heart will never recover Till returns my peasant lover. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Arsene, his body pinned deep in the snow under the sled, his head just clear of the ponies’ heels, was talking wisely and craftily to them in the patois that they understood. The Shepherd of the North Tours, says her historian, has ever employed the pure French in her spoken and written word; "patois and provincialisms have no place here." The Cathedrals of Northern France There is a good harbor, and there are wharfs where blackfaced men with blue stockings, caps, and gold earrings chatter the patois and smoke their pipes. The Harbor of Doubt Light skinned, with blue eyes and a genial expression, he gave the story of his life in the French patois spoken by Louisiana French Negroes, which has been translated into English. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 The history of this part of France is the history of the monarchy, and its language is, I won't say absolutely the classic tongue, but a nearer approach to it than any local patois. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 French—or rather patois—speaking Creoles come next in point of numbers. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' No wooing is necessary in such a case––they meet, they look, they love, and naturally and immediately take up their old, but unforgotten love patois. An Orkney Maid She soliloquises in the drawling nasal tone peculiar to her race, and adopts a Spanish patois which abounds in abbreviated words, suppressed s's, unlisped z's, and s-sounding c's. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba As a matter of fact he had failed utterly to do so, as she had not understood a word of his Broadway patois. Blue-grass and Broadway He does not, for example, know much French, but he has evolved a sort of patois—much nearer English than French—that enables the inhabitants to understand him and comprehend what he wants. War Letters of a Public-School Boy Fortunately the crusader also knew something of that patois, and made the purpose of his visit sufficiently clear. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture “Good-night, Banou,” she said, in patois French; “you may go to bed, and I will take care of my little boy.” Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life The mandarin uttered his woe in a quivering voice, shifting from a Bengal patois to Mandarin, and again to reckless English. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Our guides themselves discussed what route to follow; they spoke in patois, and did not always agree, which was not a good sign. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories But an under-servant brought me my coffee; and with her I could not exchange a word: she spoke in such an execrable patois. The Grey Woman and other Tales As neither of the officers understood one word of the patois of the country they could only make signs that they wanted something to eat and drink. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson Even Grand'mère desisted for that day from cracking jokes, which she was always doing in a patois that to Talbot was unintelligible. Life in a Tank A little later a small herd of cattle passed, driven to pasture by a stolid Alsatian, who replied to the soldiers’ questions in German patois and shrugged his heavy shoulders like a Frenchman. The Maids of Paradise Many of them speak Spanish, or its North Mexican patois. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness She could hear Nicolette protesting in her shrill patois, and a rather vulgar, but very determined English voice, vigorously asserting itself. The New Tenant It was a sort of “lingoa geral” spoken along the seaboard of Africa,—not unlike a similar Portuguese patois, current on the coasts and large rivers of tropical South America. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea In this peculiar patois, called Judendeutsch, a large literature had developed. Jewish Literature and Other Essays “It’s a party of the rooineks,” he said in his Dutch patois; “or some of our horses left from that wretched surprise yesterday.” The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War “The capting!” with various other phrases in their respective patois, expressive of surprise and recognition. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness The man spoke in the patois of the island, a kind of old Norman French which the young man understood very well. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story Amid the jargon of the Indian dialects that he now plainly heard, it was easy to distinguish not only words, but sentences, in the patois of the Canadas. The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 All around her were voices talking in a sort of mill patois concerning matters which she did not understand. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life The pure Malay of books is very different from the colloquial patois of Kuching. Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak “Squaw—Utah gal,” replied the Mexican in his trapper patois. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness He only spoke in the patois, which Frank understood very well. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story One man made friends with a Marseillais by talking in his native patois. Lectures on the French Revolution My Greek servant tried in his patois to explain the unseen owner of the mysterious voice, but it was only when a small gull suddenly came paddling round the corner that I realised my mistake. Birds in the Calendar The boy—I did not even know his name—nodded, with a torrent of sullen patois. The La Chance Mine Mystery The tone and patois had already admonished me that the speaker was neither white nor Indian, but of that third typical race that mingles in the social life of the transatlantic world—an African. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness “Let us speak in French,” he said, in patois. Northern Lights To be able to speak to them familiarly, he learnt their native patois, and laboured at it like a schoolboy. The Huguenots in France Dolly lifted a cup and stared at it, wondering while Anita glibly explained in her patois of Spanish-English, that yes, indeed, it was the Señorita’s own. Dorothy on a Ranch Now it was that my studies in Italian temperament came to my assistance quite as strongly as my knowledge of the rough fisher patois. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Vixen bought some grapes and peaches of a female native in a cap, whose patois was the funniest perversion of French and English imaginable. Vixen, Volume III. "They speak English fairly well: I can understand them," I once heard her say of us to a group of Relicts in the garden; "but of course they speak only a patois: they are Americans." Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Her usual speech was the patois of her country, but when she became inspired she spoke perfectly, and, according to Michelet, with great eloquence. The Huguenots in France Phœbe soon lost all dread of those who petted her, and favoured them with broad smiles and an incomprehensible patois. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Here dwelt a family who spoke English,—not a patois, but English,—rare in Labrador as politicians in heaven. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 The Russian language is now seldom heard, for in the villages a kind of native patois is spoken. From Paris to New York by Land By which I discovered that had she spoken our transatlantic patois she would have said "blades." Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 However, Bompard's comrade was very useful, for, in spite of its French sign, Le Chamois Fid�le the people of the "Faithful Chamois" could speak nothing but a horrible German patois. Tartarin On The Alps In his insane fury he jumbled together indiscriminately the abusive patois of his native hillside, 'Ah la garso! The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 A provincial patois, which was rarely written, and which was not spoken beyond Syria, was as little adapted as could be to such an object. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 The Buriat dialect is a kind of patois composed of Mongolian and Chinese; the religion Buddhism. From Paris to New York by Land It was encouraging, the man put in in his patois, for they had been greatly disturbed by rumors among the country-folk and many soldiers already had passed through. The Secret Witness When eligible opportunity for advertisement as a substitute for a cheque was hinted at, Messrs. —— brusquely replied, in the low Essex patois, 'Wadyermean?' He But even in her savage Corsican patois the great lady knew no 'nasty words,' and when she had cried 'Coward! coward! wretch!' her beautiful mouth could only writhe in helpless rage. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 He was a delayer also and, in poker patois, a passer of the buck. The Job An American Novel Sitting between two of the prettiest girls of Ceprano, he talked to them in an Italian, very little of which they understood; for his patois called forth from the volatile creatures bursts of laughter. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 The French recruits were from provinces which had their own "beloved patois," and which, to the Parisian, held nearly the same rank of civilized respect as the Kingdom of Ashantee. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 As for the regions of the east, on account of the Germanic patois they could not dream of it. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life I stopped the carriage and endeavored to enter into conversation with the pair, but could not understand a word of their patois. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Until he came, I spoke the rude patois of Kit and Matt; but Mr. Mellowtone taught me a new language, and insisted that I should speak it. Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer This wild girl was elegantly brought up, as far as their somewhat straitened circumstances would permit, for she learned songs and ballads, French, English, and the Norman patois of the Channel Islands. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893 I found, by his patois, a few words of which I contrived to make out, that he was a Savoyard, who had only very recently arrived in the colony. A Boy's Voyage Round the World With the degeneration of Innocent and Benedict we may compare Fr. crétin, idiot, an Alpine patois form of chrétien, Christian, and Eng. silly, which once meant blessed, a sense preserved by its German cognate selig. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) That she could be inveigled into so grave a step with a man whose sole claim to merit was well-cut clothes and a command of social patois was quite beyond his comprehension. David Malcolm For his benefit the Cape patois was promoted to the rank of a language. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Among Anglo-American hunters, it is called the panther—in their patois, “painter.” The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire But we soon found from listening to their conversation on deck that what they were speaking was not French but some sort of patois. Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge The man spoke in patois French, the woman in her native Cree language. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains People to whom she spoke smiled at her patois and her innocent questions, but she did not care. Mère Girauds Little Daughter When we were again in safety, the driver exclaimed, in the classic patois of New England, "Wall, I guess yer the fust woman that ever rode over that are hill without hollering." The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 French faces, French music, French voices, and the conversation in French!” for the botanist addressed the females in that language, though with a strong Rhenish patois, that confirmed my first impressions of his nationality. The Scalp Hunters The mere fact that you know the word patois shows that you must be mighty well educated. Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge A Dutchman ought to have more sense than to load up with a lot of cursed patois. The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Men, women, and children lounged about the doorways and kept up a constant cackle of conversation in a mysterious patois which Miss Talbot, though an excellent French scholar, could make nothing of. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective The simple rustic fare of Brockdish Excels the choicest made or mock dish; Nor is there any patois so Superb as that of Spooner Row. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14 Their language was a Spanish patois; their voices were sharp and disagreeable. The Scalp Hunters Everybody that the man from Kansas tried—waiters, hotel clerks, shop people—all spoke patois. Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge He rubbed Jim's muzzle against the bed, and pointed to nails in the logs where the clothes of the patois had hung. The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 I need a trusty fellow in Mexico—one who speaks Spanish and the patois of the half-blood laborers. Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win "When I first came from Dauphiny up to Versailles," laughed the Count de Bellecour, "I spoke such a patois they thought I was a horse." The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette As they drew nearer, I recognised the patois of my Canadian follower, and that of his companion was not to be mistaken. The Scalp Hunters |
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