Sentence examples for provincial dialect from inspiring English sources

He performs most of his music in an obscure provincial dialect of Norwegian called saltsdakas only spoken by about 5,000 people who live in one Northern agricultural valley.

Among the synonyms for dialect, the word idiom refers to any kind of dialect, or even language, whereas patois, a term from French, denotes rural or provincial dialects, often with a deprecatory connotation.

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.

Du Bellay also encouraged the revival of archaic French words, the incorporation of words and expressions from provincial dialects, the use of technical terms in literary contexts, the coining of new words, and the development of verse forms new to French literature.

But more than ever Thailand's underprivileged are less inclined to quietly accept their station in life as past generations did and are voicing anger about wide disparities in wealth, about shakedowns by the police and what they see as the longstanding condescension in Bangkok toward people who speak provincial dialects, especially from the northeast.

A related sense found in provincial English dialect was "dry, bushy fragments found among food," construed as plural.

MS. JANSSEN (her first name, Famke, pronounced fam-KEY, means "little girl" in a provincial Dutch dialect) is one of three sisters in show business: her older sister, Antoinette, is a director, and her younger sister, Margolein, is an actress; both studied theater throughout their youth.

Mary Field, then the CFF's chief executive, believed provincial audiences would not understand regional dialects and so the CFF promoted received pronunciation.

In most other Indo-Aryan-speaking areas of South Asia, the modern period saw overlapping local dialects being grouped into strictly defined provincial languages, but this process has taken much longer to happen in Punjab.

Onstage minutes later, he demonstrates each with almost preternatural command, launching into the differences among the various provincial accents in Canada, and explaining how the D.C. dialect is unique from the cadence found in Maryland and Virginia.