Word: dialectism
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...alleviate chronic poverty. The counties sold mineral rights to citizens for around $10,000 per square kilometer. Entire villages often pooled their money to invest in rights and rigs. More than 6,000 wells were drilled, and soon the "pump worms," as derricks are known in the local dialect, yielded crude. "I saw people building new houses, hiring teachers for their children," says Liu, who in 1999 formed a company with four other people, borrowed heavily and drilled three wells...
...sorry, but I do not understand the Catalan dialect. Please say yes if you would like to learn the other one for as little as $19.95 a month...
...Vegas, Atlantic City and Catskill Borscht Belt circuit for 40 years, and a favorite of TV audiences on the old Ed Sullivan hour and the Tonight show; after a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. A onetime salesman in New York City's garment district, Cohen specialized in dialect stories and ethnic jokes that were sometimes blue, usually hilarious, but always gentle...
...language and experience to share.” They talked about the sometimes difficult transition from what Ms. Gu describes as the “homogenous Chinese society to the diverse Western society” and enjoyed conversing with each other in a mixture of English, Mandarin, and Shanghai dialect...
Lisa Brooks, lecturer in history and literature, presented a paper on James Printer of the Nipmuc tribe, who worked with John Eliot in the basement of the Indian College to produce the nation’s first bible. This Bible was printed in Algonquian, a Massachusetts Indian dialect...