Dialect and Parlance

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Dialect noun - The special terms or expressions of a particular group or field.

Usage example: the promotional team for the new computer used a dialect full of acronyms that the press found difficult to follow

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Parlance is a synonym for dialect. In some cases you can use "Parlance" instead a noun "Dialect".

Parlance noun - A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language.

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Dialect is a synonym for parlance in idiom topic. You can use "Dialect" instead a noun "Parlance".

old	old dialect	old parlance
common	common dialect	common parlance
formal	formal dialect	formal parlance
medieval	medieval dialect	medieval parlance
Other adjectives: actual, modern.

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