The Prince has now managed to pick up a bit of the local dialect during his time in New Zealand, stumbling through a speech in Maori during a visit to Whanganui on New Zealand's North island.
She wants them, in addition to studying Modern Standard Arabic, to learn a little bit of the Egyptian dialect, which she is most familiar with, to write to pen pals and to get in touch with the culture of Arab youth on YouTube.
Despite the American origins of the pseudo-Chinese dish called chop suey, the term itself originates in a bit of Guangdong dialect that means mixed bits.
The printed player roster followed most feminine-sounding names with asterisks, explaining that these were members of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra — in a way, though not literally, the Philharmonic's parent company — but "do not yet belong to the association of the Vienna Philharmonic," a bit of coy Viennese dialect oozing with the implication "and never will".
(Ho ho, if I may be permitted a bit of "black dialect").
Minnie Driver, as the Italian diva upstaged by Christine and the Phantom, tries a bit of dialect humor, saying things like "'Ee lava me!" and "I 'ate my 'at!" as if she were auditioning for a part in the next Super Mario video game.
The poem's origins are lost to us: we don't even know for sure whether it was composed primarily in West Saxon and contains bits of Anglian dialect, whether it was the other way around or even some other permutation.
I speak Bengali and I follow some of the dialects.
Do you feel a bit of overpowered with all the dialects which are out there for you?
At home, or in whatever room was currently home, the only book was the Bible, but there were his mother's stories, and also the Jamaican poems ("Anancy stories, a bit of reggae and ska, dialect poets, that sort of thing") she used to recite, that she'd learnt at school.
