Dialect
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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Patois is a synonym for dialect in idiom topic. In some cases you can use "Patois" instead a noun "Dialect", when it comes to topics like vernacular, language, words, common speech. popular alternative
Patois
Patois noun - The special terms or expressions of a particular group or field.
Usage example: the medical patois that the hospital staffers used among themselves was incomprehensible to me
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However, it was never realistic to depict all Native Americans speaking the same patois— there are over five hundred indigenous cultural groups in North America, each with its own language or dialect.
Source: Tonto Talk -
Beware the Nice Ones: "Forgive Them Father" Beware the false motives of others Be careful of those who pretend to be brothers And you never suppose it's those who are closest to you Bilingual Bonus: "Forgive Them Father" and "Lost Ones" both feature singing in patois, the local dialect of Jamaica.
- Reggae in particular has popularized the image of Jamaica as a country where everyone is black, wears dreadlocks, smokes marijuana (ganja) and speaks in the the local dialect ("patois") with a deep voice.
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