Sentence examples for dialect during from inspiring English sources

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.

Han Shaogong's relaxed biography of a village in southern China, A Dictionary of Maqiao, told as the author's semi-fictionalised memoir of labouring there and learning the local dialect during the Cultural Revolution; translated by Julia Lovell, (Columbia University Press, 2003).

Onyewu smiles when he describes understanding 'Geordie' as being a different challenge altogether but in truth he did not get much of a chance to pick up the north-east dialect during a short loan spell at St James' Park in the 2007 season.

Feedback from these patients confirmed that most of the findings presented their point of view and only clarification on minor misunderstandings of patients' words was done because of the use of dialect during the interview.

I have even picked up quite a smatter of Malay and some local dialects during my visits there!

And he claimed to have picked up some of the local dialect, "Strine", during childhood trips through Australia.

I've also wondered whether this is a problem that Google Glass could solve … "If I had Google Glass right now, I would already know that the term po'boy originated in a New Orleans restaurant owned by former streetcar workers Benny and Clovis Martin, who served the sandwiches to off duty street car workers (in Louisiana dialect Po'boys) during a 1929 strike against the street car company".

The number of Walloon poets and other dialect writers increased during the 19th century.

Though Patrick had learned the local dialect and traditions during his time as a slave, he often wrote of his fear of being martyred; Ireland's previous bishop, another Roman appointee, had been driven out of the country.

More local history books and tapes of Bonackers (pronounced BON-uh-kers) telling family stories in their dialect were added during the town's yearlong, 350th anniversary celebration in 1998.

Though merely speculative, these conjectures have revealed the existence of rustic regional dialect farces in Italy during the Middle Ages.