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  • She was unaccustomed to the Kabuli dialect of his Farsi, and to the underlying layer of Pashto accent, the language of his native Kandahar.†   (source)
  • Because they were from the city of Budzyil, near my hometown of Narewka, they spoke Yiddish with the same dialect I did.†   (source)
  • They spoke in an Arabic dialect that the boy didn't understand, but, when he made to leave, the guard told him to stay.†   (source)
  • But it wasn't the same as the language of the city to which she'd first been taken, or not the same dialect, because she'd had to learn a different way of speaking.†   (source)
  • He spoke through an interpreter who was an Ibo man, though his dialect was different and harsh to the ears of Mbanta.†   (source)
  • If you had wandered up and down the streets of Roseto in Pennsylvania in the first few decades after 1900, you would have heard only Italian, and not just any Italian but the precise southern Foggian dialect spoken back in the Italian Roseto.†   (source)
  • I've done my best to capture the language with which each person spoke and wrote: dialogue appears in native dialects; passages from diaries and other personal writings are quoted exactly as written.†   (source)
  • This is what he heard … * Ford Prefect's original name is only pronounceable in an obscure Betel-geusian dialect, now virtually extinct since the Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal. /Sid.†   (source)
  • There was something about his accent. l'm good at placing dialects-it helps in this profession-but I couldn't place this guy's homeworld, much less local region.†   (source)
  • Well, we had two weeks of study in the Olinka dialect, which the people hi this region speak.†   (source)
  • In the local dialect, it means Homer.†   (source)
  • Mom sometimes seemed to lapse into a different dialect when one of her brothers was around.†   (source)
  • Which I assumed meant hot in the dialect of deciduous fruit.†   (source)
  • He is shouting in the Abkhazian dialect; all the people who run CosaNostra pizza franchises in this part of the Valley are Abkhazian immigrants.†   (source)
  • Dialect, Jane thought.†   (source)
  • It made me think of the fifth century A. D. Men standing around campfires speaking in subdued tones in their Turkic and Mongol dialects.†   (source)
  • He spoke the coarse Kottayam dialect of Malayalam.†   (source)
  • Living in Tarbean and Imre for so long, I hadn't heard a dialect this thick in years.†   (source)
  • In some dialects: Chaumas.†   (source)
  • So the names Dyaus, Zeus, lov, and Tyr are dialectal variants of the same word.†   (source)
  • After a while a pale-skinned man with light brown hair came out and told them to move along, making shooing gestures with his hands, but without any hostility or particular rudeness, more as though he was conversing in an international pidgin dialect of sign language.†   (source)
  • I was never more aware of Sayuri's Kyoto dialect—in which geisha themselves are called geiko, and kimono are sometimes known as obebe—than when I began to wonder how I would render its nuances in translation.†   (source)
  • The Burmans spoke in a distinct Norsjö dialect to each other, and Blomkvist occasionally had difficulty understanding what they were saying.†   (source)
  • They not only spoke Japanese exclusively, they spoke a dialect peculiar to Kyushu, where their families had come from in Japan, a rough, fisherman's language, full of oaths and insults.†   (source)
  • Judging from her dialect, she's from the north.†   (source)
  • The shaman's declamations were repeatedly truncated by gusts of wind, but Eragon caught snatches of the ancient language-strangely twisted and mispronounced-interspersed with dwarf and Urgal words, all of which were united by an archaic dialect of Eragon's own tongue.†   (source)
  • They reverted to the Shustari dialect, the language they spoke as children, so neither Mahtob nor I could understand the content, but it seemed to be the continuation of an ongoing argument.†   (source)
  • Boys, you got to be ready in every dialect with every shape and form to hex the St Elmo's fires, the balls of blue light that prowl the earth like sizzling cats.†   (source)
  • They spoke a dialect he didn't recognize, and said they had orders to take him away.†   (source)
  • He's speaking to the other man in sharp bursts of a dialect I don't understand.†   (source)
  • Dialect spoken in Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • The women were jumping around and the interpreter was doing all he could, shouting out in the local dialect that they were surrounded by coalition forces and to freeze and put their hands up.†   (source)
  • "Okay, he can come too," he said in an off-hand manner, in perfect Mandarin dialect.†   (source)
  • He wore his helmet cocked to one side of his head and told jokes in an Old Country dialect that broke up the farmboys and the office clerks.†   (source)
  • I also refused to stay at home when Char traveled, and learned every language and dialect that came our way.†   (source)
  • By the close of her senior year, Mary had mastered fifteen Arab dialects and won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the University of Damascus in Syria.†   (source)
  • He gave out that he was interested in history and geography (at which there was much wagging of heads, although neither of these words were much used in the Bree-dialect).†   (source)
  • They were not soft-spoken, brown-skinned people in drab rags who spoke an English dialect.†   (source)
  • While the rest of the household tried to sleep, he dragged his suitcases up and down the halls, practiced making strange, high-pitched sounds on savage instruments, and taught Spanish to a parrot whose native language was an Amazonic dialect.†   (source)
  • She spoke a slightly different dialect than I was familiar with in Puwei, but this was not the only reason for my incomprehension.†   (source)
  • But underneath the public posture, Franklin, like so many of Brown's upwardly mobile minority students, is becoming skilled in the many dialects he'll need to get ahead.†   (source)
  • "Hello, citizens," I said, in the local dialect.†   (source)
  • General Lee stood and watched, finding a measure of encouragement only in the response of the troops who remained: Some of the Connecticutians who were homesick could not be prevailed on to tarry, which means in the New England dialect to serve any longer.†   (source)
  • I knew the dialects.†   (source)
  • "I did not say that," answered Bourne; his own French dialect was one he employed frequently, with the guttural tinge of Gascony.†   (source)
  • The Volantene dialect was as new to him as it was to Tyrion, so every day they learned a few more words whilst Haldon corrected their mistakes.†   (source)
  • Some regional dialects have long enjoyed prestige; others suffer from generations of prejudice.†   (source)
  • I ran straight up the stairs to my room on the second floor of the new house, and Ahjuhma called after me in her dialect, "Come, there is enough for you."†   (source)
  • "What are you doing?" the trumpeter asked in German of the local dialect, his eyes as wide as those of an enraged eel.†   (source)
  • They would try to make the sounds, but it was a dialect known only to him, only at the edge of consciousness.†   (source)
  • So it happened that the first patrol of verbeeg to leave the lair that night soon spotted the flames of a campfire and heard the distinctive dialect of the hated dwarves.†   (source)
  • Your grandparents and parents all spoke the Algerian dialect of Arabic as well as French, and as a child you learned to speak Arabic, too.†   (source)
  • In dialect.†   (source)
  • He spoke her dialect, that's to say; and she, certainly, his.†   (source)
  • He spoke softly, using the old dialect full of sentences that were involuted with explanations of their own origins, as if nothing the old man said were his own but all had been said before and he was only there to repeat it.†   (source)
  • I could not understand any of the dialects the interviewer at China Airlines tried on me, and he didn't understand me either.†   (source)
  • There were perhaps eighty thousand in all, speaking many dialects, belonging to many tribes, scattered in many small villages over a very long and intricate coast line.†   (source)
  • Tristero's giving its employees crash courses in Siouan and Athapascan dialects.†   (source)
  • Both my dialect and my diction comprised a glib contrivance but they had succeeded in wildly amusing Leslie, and obviously winning her.†   (source)
  • Though most of my classmates were native-born Americans and spoke English in the streets, they spoke Italian in their homes to parents who clung to the dialects of Naples, Calabria, and Palermo.†   (source)
  • She spoke without a dialect and obviously was not from the island.†   (source)
  • His voice had grown soft, and he had merged many accents and dialects into his own speech, so that his speech did not seem foreign anywhere.†   (source)
  • At this he stopped still, looked at her squarely and said in his own dialect which she did not understand, "I want to drink."†   (source)
  • The girl who looked at me said something in a dialect I could not understand a word of.   (source)
  • the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect   (source)
  • the ordinary "Pike County" dialect   (source)
  • "Oh, your Chinese is the Beijing dialect, very elegant," LuLing said.†   (source)
  • Many people laughed at his dialect and the way he used words strangely.†   (source)
  • They speak in their special language, half in broken English, half in their own Chinese dialect.†   (source)
  • "Didn't anyone tell you," he says, losing the dialect, "that I was a hacker?"†   (source)
  • CHAUMURKY (Musky or Murky in some dialects): poison administered in a drink.†   (source)
  • Her letter was in Italian, real Italian that I could read, but I guess she only speaks a dialect.†   (source)
  • Denna, much to her credit, hadn't so much as batted an eye at my sudden change in dialect.†   (source)
  • It is said you speak our language in numerous dialects.'†   (source)
  • She'd called them two dialects of the same language.†   (source)
  • The angry coarse dialects of Marseilles rose over the cacophonous sounds of Le Bouc de Mer.†   (source)
  • "A different dialect than Astapor's, yet close enough to understand.†   (source)
  • What are they saying to one another in this unintelligible Kurdish dialect?†   (source)
  • She raised her wine glass and shouted in her best Shandong dialect, "To Dia, to Niang!†   (source)
  • And this woman was so old, even her dialect was foreign to me.†   (source)
  • Ralph listened to them all whether he understood their dialect or not.†   (source)
  • Country may be the greatest influence in spreading this dialect, known as Inland Southern.†   (source)
  • He wondered if it was in the dialect of Tosk.†   (source)
  • Bourne stopped and called out, his words halting, his dialect coarse.†   (source)
  • In our dialect, the word for shoe sounds the same as the word for child.†   (source)
  • Will your clients swear to the existence of this obscure field dialect today?†   (source)
  • Alessandro didn't understand the dialect, and guessed that the man had asked for the time.†   (source)
  • The dialect is rather northern, but he adjusts to Guangzhou.†   (source)
  • You know it's one of the major dialects spoken in Afghanistan."†   (source)
  • This Pittsburgh dialect has become a commodity in books and T-shirts.†   (source)
  • And in our local dialect, the word for wife is the same as the word for guest.†   (source)
  • His voice was angry, his French laced with the guttural dialect of Gascony.†   (source)
  • Helen didn't want to sound prejudiced, but at the very least, his dialect was a consideration.†   (source)
  • I have trouble understanding some of the terminology because they all speak in the Mandarin dialect.†   (source)
  • To that end, gentlemen, do any of you speak an African dialect in any degree of fluency?†   (source)
  • Linguists draw their own maps to mark different dialect areas.†   (source)
  • I was so happy and relieved when Zhu Yaopingrushed up and said something to me in Shanghai dialect.†   (source)
  • As you know, in our dialect the word for shoe sounds the same as the word for child.†   (source)
  • I am looking for a man who speaks an African dialect.†   (source)
  • By the way, the clientele at Le Bouc are not used to the Parisian dialect.†   (source)
  • Fluent English and French, and several Oriental dialects.†   (source)
  • "Your honor, I am afraid these blacks all speak an obscure field dialect," Ruiz said quickly.†   (source)
  • You know, you can tell the Boston area, you can tell the New York area, just by their dialect.†   (source)
  • Burnah speaks Mende and two Mandingo dialects.†   (source)
  • So I would have to say that my native dialect is Valley Girl English.†   (source)
  • These dialect differences are the major reasons why computers cannot understand people….†   (source)
  • Remember that we encountered that usage of anymore in the dialect of Pittsburgh.†   (source)
  • From those findings, they produced the first dialect maps.†   (source)
  • More Americans now "speak Southern" than speak any other regional dialect.†   (source)
  • There are startling vowel changes in the largest American dialect areas, North and South.†   (source)
  • Instead, the opposite is happening and is known as dialect concentration.†   (source)
  • His fellow linguist Dennis Preston stressed how hard it is for a person to change his dialect.†   (source)
  • Chicano English is now its own vibrant, thriving dialect.†   (source)
  • I'm amazed by the tenacity with which custom and dialect endure.†   (source)
  • The first clear evidence that a new dialect was evolving came in the 1960s.†   (source)
  • That idea reminded us of something Carmen Fought said about the California dialect.†   (source)
  • The original settlers brought their dialects from other parts of the country.†   (source)
  • The two dialects clash particularly in America's schools.†   (source)
  • Texas English is a combination of two Southern dialects.†   (source)
  • A number of island dialects on the eastern seaboard are in grave danger of extinction.†   (source)
  • Linguist Walt Wolfram, an expert on dialects, was traveling with us.†   (source)
  • The island blacks of South Carolina are famous among linguists for their Gullah dialect.†   (source)
  • I wonder what dialect they speak at Stanford.†   (source)
  • It was a special dialect.†   (source)
  • "Two thousand years ago, in a distant land, a man who believed in dreams was thrown into a dungeon and then sold as a slave," the old man said, now in the dialect the boy understood.†   (source)
  • It struck me that his dialect was actually the nondialect of someone who has learned a new language perfectly but without the lazy shortcuts of someone born to it.†   (source)
  • And everywhere Mariam heard the city's peculiar dialect: "Dear" was jon instead of jo, "sister" became hamshira instead of hamshireh, and so on.†   (source)
  • It was obvious that he did not easily understand her Norsjö dialect, so she switched to standard Swedish.†   (source)
  • It was entitled Brown Face, Big Master, the "brown face" referring to herself, and the "big master" referring, in the Jamaican dialect, to God.†   (source)
  • I was grateful to hear her voice, to discover we both spoke Mandarin, although her dialect was coarse-sounding.†   (source)
  • CHAKOBSA: the so-called "magnetic language" derived in part from the ancient Bhotani (Bhotani Jib — jib meaning dialect).†   (source)
  • She remembered a line from one of her Italian guidebooks: In the countryside, and particularly in the mezzogiorno, in the southern part of Italy, the peasants have no knowledge of their own language, and instead speak only localized dialect.†   (source)
  • In this domain, the prize for efficacy goes to the Cantonese dialect of Chinese, whose brevity grants residents of Hong Kong a rocketing memory span of about 10 digits.†   (source)
  • Aiyi and my father speak the Mandarin dialect from their childhood, but the rest of the family speaks only the Cantonese of their village.†   (source)
  • CHAUMAS (Aumas in some dialects): poison in solid food as distinguished from poison administered in some other way.†   (source)
  • A collection of ancient dialects modified by needs of secrecy, but chiefly the hunting language of the Bhotani, the hired assassins of the first Wars of Assassins.†   (source)
  • So we were shy at first, your father and I, neither of us able to speak to each other in our Chinese dialects.†   (source)
  • When they switch to black dialect the producer gets them to stop but after a while they're at it again, doing a couple of reefer Negroes in the fumy murmurs of some cellar room.†   (source)
  • It is the language of your people, but as it was spoken and written long ago, and of a very particular dialect: that of the zealot Tosk.†   (source)
  • "Noble Ghael," said Missandei, in the dialect of Astapor, "is this the same Cleon once owned by Grazdan mo Ullhor?"†   (source)
  • The military were a breed apart, brothers who spoke a different dialect from the civilians and with whom any attempt at dialogue would be a conversation of the deaf, because the slightest dissent was considered treason in their rigid honor code.†   (source)
  • There arose a walled city of two hundred thousand where the inhabitants spoke the Palmyrene dialect of Aramaic and grew wealthy from the caravan traffic along the Silk Road.†   (source)
  • The men spoke mostly English but used the dialect when an idea needed a push or shove into a more familiar place.†   (source)
  • Farther on, two legions from New Ghis were facing off shield wall to shield wall whilst serjeants in iron halfhelms with horsehair crests screamed commands in their own incomprehensible dialect.†   (source)
  • "You should bring this to the district magistrate, citizen," I told the Orsian, in the local dialect.†   (source)
  • When I take out my wallet the two men start hollering excitedly in some dialect and push my money away.†   (source)
  • "Listen carefully and be prepared to write down every salient fact, all the while feigning total lack of interest and offering such remarks as"-here the Novgorod graduate's Southern dialect became so rough-mountain South that the magnolias were replaced by sour mash-"†   (source)
  • Obviously, as vital as the physical appearances was language-not merely the fluent use of English but the mastery of linguistic idiosyncrasies, the dialects that were characteristic of specific locations.†   (source)
  • He used to take the knives down and talk to the knife grinder and he found it satisfying to use the dialect.†   (source)
  • I said it was adequate, and he began to shout in the dialect of the Savoyards-Aostian Italian, we used to call it at school— and he spoke with such insanity and with such a squeaky voice that I couldn't help laughing.†   (source)
  • He explained the plan as best he could in Farsi, occasionally reverting to phrases of Kurdish dialect or Turkish.†   (source)
  • "There's always talk," acknowledged Lieutenant Awn, the answer so formulaic I didn't need to translate it for her, she could say it in the local dialect.†   (source)
  • They never answered when she spoke to them, as if they did not understand Spanish, and when they spoke among themselves they always whispered or used one of the mountain dialects.†   (source)
  • 'It is the privilege of the establishment,' said the tuxedoed man, bowing and moving away, trying to place a dialect he could not recognize.†   (source)
  • He had learned to read High Valyrian at his maester's knee, though what they spoke in the Nine Free Cities …. well, it was not so much a dialect as nine dialects on the way to becoming separate tongues.†   (source)
  • Young Griff spoke the Common Tongue as if he had been born to it, and was fluent in High Valyrian, the low dialects of Pentos, Tyrosh, Myr, and Lys, and the trade talk of sailors.†   (source)
  • And from the snatches of conversation that he could hear, they spoke Mandarin, not Cantonese, which was the normal dialect for soldiers, even officers, of the Guangdong garrison.†   (source)
  • She knew by heart words from several dialects of the Indians, was acquainted with their customs, and could describe the exact way in which they pierced their lips and earlobes with wooden shafts, their initiation rites, the names of the most poisonous snakes, and the appropriate antidotes for each.†   (source)
  • A southern dialect word, a corruption, a slur, an invective, from tizzo, he assumed, a firebrand or smoldering coal, and broadened to human dimensions in tizzone d'inferno, scoundrel, villain.†   (source)
  • A compound's staff created the daily training schedules for each individual section, and the trainers, both permanent and part-time retirees, commandeered all individual and group activities while the candidates carried them out, using only the language of the compound and the dialects of the specific areas in which they were located.†   (source)
  • She asked about our village and I told her that Puwei meant Common Beauty Village in our local dialect.†   (source)
  • It was the bazaar of bazaars, a dozen tongues and dialects vying for the ears and the eyes of the evershifting crowds.†   (source)
  • Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, later Carlos the assassin, had been trained in the American compound of Novgorod, where the streets were lined with American gas stations and grocery stores, boutiques and Burger Kings, and everyone spoke American English with diverse dialects-no Russian was allowed-and The possibles were thus narrowed to thirty-five, the hotel's register listing them as nine couples, four single women and thirteen single men.†   (source)
  • The others were all from Shanghai and although they talked a lot I didn't understand a thing they said because they only spoke Shanghai dialect.†   (source)
  • "Mother," they called to her, in the dialects of Astapor, Lys, and Old Volantis, in guttural Dothraki and the liquid syllables of Qarth, even in the Common Tongue of Westeros.†   (source)
  • He was the joke that carried a missing history—the fat joke, the dumb joke, the joke about the rabbi and the priest, the honeymoon joke, the dialect joke, the punch line that survives long after the joke is forgotten.†   (source)
  • He had learned to read High Valyrian at his maester's knee, though what they spoke in the Nine Free Cities …. well, it was not so much a dialect as nine dialects on the way to becoming separate tongues.†   (source)
  • They did, but the coarseness of their dialect, even though only a few li from Tongkou, told me a lot about the unsavory quality of the people who lived here.†   (source)
  • As far as we can gather, he mastered the fringe dialects so to be understood in the hill country along the Cambodian and Laos border routes, as well as in rural North Vietnam.†   (source)
  • I knew Manhattan only at street level, fitfully, and felt a little isolated, and the place scared me with its knowingness, its offhand vaunt, a style of mind and guise that can be harder to learn than some dialect of the Transvaal.†   (source)
  • We were the three smallest boys, and although we couldn't communicate well because of our different dialects, we managed in the end.†   (source)
  • They saw a man who'd cut his eyeball out of its socket because it contained a satanic symbol, a five-pointed star, and Edgar talked to this one, he'd popped the eyeball from his head and then severed the connecting tendons with a knife, and she talked to him in English and understood what he said although he spoke a language, a dialect none of them had ever heard—finally flushing the eye down the communal toilet outside his cubbyhole.†   (source)
  • His friendly manner, eagerness to walk unannounced into houses, subtlety with the local dialect, familiarity with classical Chinese and history, and enthusiastic interest in nu shu—something that he had not known existed—helped make my journey especially fruitful.†   (source)
  • He testified that these men did in fact speak an African language and not a Spanish-inflected dialect.†   (source)
  • Dialects?†   (source)
  • Certainly there would be a sailor, probably a black one, on some ship, that spoke the language as well as English or some other dialect of the west.†   (source)
  • He had learned the supreme lesson: All scholars, no matter where they lived or what dialect they spoke, read the same texts and took the same exams so that loyalty, integrity, and a singular vision would be maintained across the realm.†   (source)
  • What dialects?†   (source)
  • Jimmy knew some dialect.†   (source)
  • They have human form, they wear clothes, they speak a language, though certainly not Spanish or some sort of contrived 'field dialect.'†   (source)
  • And when he wasn't doing any of these things Nick would find him here and they'd play a card game called briscola, pronounced breeshk in dialect, a game the old men played, and they played just to pass the time, which there were worse ways of doing because there was something about George the Waiter that Nick found interesting.†   (source)
  • You can examine the word with a click, tracing its origins, development, earliest known use, its passage between languages, and you can summon the word in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Arabic, in a thousand languages and dialects living and dead, and locate literary citations, and follow the word through the tunneled underworld of its ancestral roots.†   (source)
  • And that language that the leader inveighed His Honor Judge Judson with, that wasn't any amalgamation of Spanish, dialect or not.†   (source)
  • No matter how obscure the field dialect, one would think that a man would know his name, the name he has been called by his masters since birth.†   (source)
  • Jack was greatly given to robust jokes that Esther hated and Klara kind of liked, the kind of joke you're supposed to like in spite of yourself, outdated stones with stupid stereotypes and a range of dialects, but sly in the manner in which they welcome the listener's complicity—Jack told jokes in which nothing ever changes.†   (source)
  • Well, I do not know exactly what language, but I believe it is a Western African dialect, though not Congolese.†   (source)
  • "Your Honor," Holabird objected, "it is also in the same record that Mr. Ruiz and Montes clearly stated that the slaves speak an obscure field dialect."†   (source)
  • "Yes," Holabird said, "but as I understand it, many of the slaves, especially those on back country plantations, retain the African language of their ancestors or speak a field dialect that is an amalgamation of Spanish and tribal languages."†   (source)
  • "Your Honor," Holabird said, "while certain members of this band of blacks have shown themselves to be cunning and clever, it is well known that the black race is not a very bright one, and it is entirely possible that these men only comprehend the field dialect that they were raised with."†   (source)
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