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Thursday, August 27, 2009

What's a word for "provincial speech"?


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Why: In the In Touch Weekly crossword, #113 across: "Provincial speech"
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Answer: PATOIS! A dialect other than the standard or literary dialect - especially illiterate or provincial speech

Source: Wordsmith.org

The More You Know: It was the Word of the Day May 21, 1994! And you know what it was the next day? Agglutinate!

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