The word "patter" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the sound of light, persistent rain (e.g. "The rain had a gentle patter against the window"), or a rapid, light and quick speech pattern (e.g. "He spoke in a dizzying patter").
She is like sunshine on the wireless – a charming breeze, the patter of soft rain on a roof.
Blackburn's transatlantic DJ's patter is currently one of the prolific voices on Audioboo.
Just imagine, given the mere 35 million people who tuned in to watch the wedding, how limp their sales patter would be had they not sliced those extra inches off her waist.
Outside and we're past a sausage-seller and hot dog guy on the corner, their fading signs the same since 1988, their patter of hot-doggy-hot-doggy rippling through the wood-smoke like ancient rites, something like it.
If that's the case, I'm pretty sure that everyone who saw Pulp Fiction – and there are millions of them – immediately went out and made their own cloth-eared, non-linear ensemble gangster movie of questionable worth, stuffed with hoary old has-been actors and endless, desperate, directionless patter.
The conman's patter could run out, too.Crime, however, was not his whole career.
From its investor-relations department comes the usual soothing patter about the company's wonderful business model and its world-famous management initiatives (Six-Sigma, digitisation and so on).
Mr Gardner was out campaigning for the Labour Party in Hemel Hempstead, a medium-sized English town, and approached a female shopper with the usual candidates' patter—"Madam, may I take a few moments of your time to talk about the European elections".
And, for all his slick patter and casuistry, he has nothing interesting to say about his main themes of sex, death and male-female relations.
"This isn't about Republican/Democrat," is his cutesy patter.
IN A rundown bus park in central Lagos, a man with a microphone begins a patter of jokes that gathers a small crowd.
