What does it mean, and is it a bit odd that, in celebrating the Saints' Super Bowl victory this week, we've all broken into dialect?
Willo tells this dark story in a heavy, coarse, broken, but often beautiful dialect: "People always looking to find the runt in you and needle it out if they can".
State promotion of national languages has reduced the scope of dialects, and broken the continuum along national borders.
Their language is related to Finnish and Estonian and is broken down into three broad dialects by region, with the majority speaking North Sami, the language of the parliament.
Although the Assiniboin spoke a Siouan dialect, Nakota, sometime before the 17th century they had broken with the powerful group of Sioux who spoke the Dakota dialect.
But with a win on Sunday, Schäfer – whose broken English can on occasion resemble the colloquialisms of the Jamaican dialect – could find himself etched into the country's folklore as well.
Reflecting on the six months she spent away from her husband and two daughters aged eight and ten Hislop says, "I missed them terribly," she says, a note of emotion breaking through the precise military dialect.
These mob dialects would eventually break Latin's stranglehold, but not before the 16th and 17th centuries.
Most of these Chinese leaders were also members of secret societies, and communal warfare often broke out in Singapore between different dialect groups as a result of conflicting economic interests.
Voice and dialect teachers help actors achieve an authentic accent, researching and breaking it down into component parts that can be taught one at a time.
