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patois - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- speech: Using the patois of Jamaican speech, LKJ articulates the Black British experience and uses the rhythms of reggae to get his message across.
Converse of object
- speak: The Speak Jamaican - with an excellent collection of pages including help in speaking Jamaican patois.
- use: For me, the shorthand character sketches, often using patois or speech rhythms, are the most immediate things in the book.
Adjective modifier
- Jamaican: The language here is Jamaican patois - a version of English which has developed in Jamaica.
- French: Local French patois is spoken Weather Hot tropical climate with cool sea breezes.
- local: Local French patois is spoken Weather Hot tropical climate with cool sea breezes.
- soft: Card was filled the soft patois were three hours late.
- Caribbean: From poems written in strict form to poems written in Caribbean patois.
- English: Among young people is there a developing English Urdu patois?
Noun used with modifier
- street: Some odd melange of Whitehall, English and the street patois of Blather.
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