Sentence examples for odd dialect from inspiring English sources

As we stopped at each checkpoint, I strained to understand what he was saying to the local people, imagining that it was some odd dialect of Arabic – but I had no idea what any of the words meant.

There's a stern presence to her delivery of songs such as "The Step And The Walk", and particularly the single "Send A Little Love Token"; and with her odd dialect twist – part-Cockney, part- European – she sounds at times like a bluesier Siouxsie.

For a good hour I have been singing lays in langue d'oc to a woman who knows only langue d'oïl, an odd Picard dialect at that...

The basic impression is of Italian cooking translated into an odd American dialect, in which grilled anchovies are laid so beautifully on the plate that you rather suspect there's an art director.

Her own dialect.

While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon.

While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied—from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period—less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon.

And the 6,000 odd islanders, who speak a Ligurian dialect and put pesto on their tuna, are clearly not from Sardinia.

(I hedge my bets because there might be the odd over-deliberate cuteness in Nan's northern dialect - very much "Eeh, in't it grand?" - but I am told it's all authentic). No character is a caricature.

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?

This situation is odd, because linguists prefer to use regular sound changes to establish the backbone of a dialect or language tree.