Sentence examples for regional words from inspiring English sources
"I like the fact that we still have lots of regional words," she said.
Regional words add flavour: gris gris, batture, nutria, mirlitons.These two books, so different in style, share a common virtue.
In it, he catalogued regional words for things like fields and streams and icicles, which, he found out, were called "clinkerbells" and "dagglers" in Wessex, and "cancervells" in Exmoor; "ickles" in Yorkshire; "tankles" in Durham; "shuckles" in Cumbria; and "aquabob" in Kent.
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The word pljeskavica comes from pljesak, a regional word for clapping the hands, the motion used to press the burger into a thin round.
But many other regional word maps — like those showing where people stop drinking "soda" and start chugging "pop" or "Coke" — have no clear relationship to differences in pronunciation, he said.
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It's not quite as vital as the battles to save the likes of the Amur leopard and giant panda from extinction, but a campaign to preserve a host of endangered regional American words and phrases has been launched, looking to save the likes of "wamus" to "sonsy", and "spouty" to "bonnyclabber".
Then, in the general election, he ran the "Thurmond Speaks for Nixon-Agnew" committee, which was ostensibly "independent" of the official campaign, lest Nixon be excoriated by pundits for campaigning in the South, as one internal memo put it, "in regional code words".
President Nixon rewarded Dent with a White House job as his keeper of those same regional code words, the man in charge of demonstrating to the South that the White House would not be working to enforce federal civil rights laws, while appearing publicly to endorse them.
