Sentence examples for regional idiom from inspiring English sources
Col. Cooper comes from Jacksonville, Fla., and it is obvious that the Japanese prisoner lost no time in picking up his interlocutor's regional idiom.
Its source was in Paris, and it flowed in turn principally to Vienna, to London and thence to North America, submerging the German singspiel and its Scandinavian offshoots but leaving the Spanish zarzuela to cultivate its own regional idiom.
This process facilitated the selection of relevant questions, adaptation of the language to reflect regional idiom, and informed the structure and content of the draft questionnaire to be tested in the field.
Once you master the mountain of grammar, you realise you now have to dig down to the bottomless pit of vocab – then there's idioms, regional variations, formal versus informal.
Insisting on the holistic view that human rights are as much about economic and social rights as they are about civil and political rights, the contributors offer novel analyses of African conceptions, experiences, and aspirations of human rights which manifest themselves in complex global, regional, and local idioms.
This mesmerizing period mystery, narrated by the 11-year-old son of a country constable, draws on the lyrical storytelling idiom of regional folk legend to filter the horror of race violence and serial murder in a small East Texas town during the Depression.
The survey has received about 15,000 responses so far, enough to pepper a map of the United States with concentrations of tiny colored dots showing distinct regional differences in pronunciation, idioms, and grammar.
Acts like the Streets, Lady Sovereign, and Dizzee Rascal are deliciously regional despite working in what's become a global idiom.
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) explored the Romantic nature of Spain, writing virtuosic piano pieces that celebrate regional dances and styles of that country's folk idioms.
The particulars of time, place and idiom may be lost on those unfamiliar with the regional idiosyncrasies of Mr. Kinevane's home country.
