Word: dialectically
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...each stop, she is greeted by entire village populations cheering and waving with a passion normally reserved for holy days. Her mother grew up not far away. Arroyo knows the local dialect?one of six languages she speaks?and remembers the steps of the traditional dances she's invited to join. She's happiest on these trips, she says repeatedly. And she does seem looser than she is around the palace or in press conferences and at official functions. Her frequent reminders that she's the first President to visit these towns?shrugging off two previous helicopter crashes and "risking...
Chem 5 teaching fellow Roger D. Huffstetler opened the proceedings with an imitation of Davis which drew laughs. Davis was teased for his Southern dialect and the “Good morning!” with which he greets his students...
...pilot, Tsung has an MBA from the University of Missouri and finance experience at Columbia Pictures and in California city government. After returning to Taiwan in 1999, Tsung, 52, was tapped to run the national airline. She has introduced stock options and appealed to skeptical pilots in the Sichuan dialect that many of them speak. And she's credited for increasing profits 95% in the first quarter...
...this again very soon. "Yes," said my mother. "But the next time we have lunch, we should invite Joseph Cotten." She spoke with great earnestness. "Why, Mom?" I asked, since neither of us knew the actor personally. "Because Joseph Cotten is remarkable," she said. "He can listen to your dialect and know exactly what part of the country you come from...
...came in search of souls and spices left a generation of mixed-race offspring that, at the high point of empire building, was more than one-million strong. Today, in Malaysia's Strait of Malacca, 1,000 Eurasian fishermen, descendants of intrepid Portuguese traders, still speak an archaic dialect of Portuguese, practice the Catholic faith and carry surnames like De Silva and Da Costa. In Macau, 10,000 mixed-race Macanese serve as the backbone of the former colony's civil service and are known for their spicy fusion cuisine...