patois

How To Use patois In A Sentence

• The men were droning at each other in their Greek-inflected patois, or singing through their noses to the accompaniment of a flute out of tune.
• English is the official language of Grenada, but many Grenadians speak patois, a dialect that combines English words with elements of French and African languages.
• The art of banter, which is both a workplace and television writer's art, the true insider's patois (there's a special rhythm to the banter in the show, a staccato syllabification), may be at the heart of The West Wing's success.
• In France patois was spoken in rural, less developed regions.
• At the other extreme, it is favoured by inner-city teens who appear to communicate entirely in an impenetrable mix of street slang and patois.
• They spoke to me in patois, which I did not understand, and seemed surprised to see us all in our nightgowns, forgetting that we had little else to put on till they had brought the luggage. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
• What is it about spring training that reduces normally gruff sportswriters to the patois of travel brochures?
• Oh yes, soldiering on... "For some reason Peter and I regularly communicated in this obsolescent patois of the British Empire. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
• They also recall Saint Lucia's checkered colonial past, reminding the visitor that many locals still speak a French patois, even though English is the island's official language.
• In Jamaica, we speak English primarily but more often we speak the local dialect, patois.