Word: dialectism
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...building ought to be measured to its highest occupied floor rather than to its structural top. That would make the Sears Towers taller than the Kuala Lumpur building, which gets its final 242 ft. of height from some decorative spires that I believe are referred to in the local dialect as tchotchkes...
...Talk Minnesotan. Was it funny? Hey, you betcha. So are the twistings of that frosty, flabbergastingly flat accent as heard on the Minnesota-based Mystery Science Theater 3000. Two other gifted natives, the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, have apparently never got over the giggle value of their regional dialect. Fargo, their derisive new true-crime comedy, could be subtitled How to Laugh at People Who Talk Minnesotan...
...come with a dictionary, but maybe it should. With all the exotic turns of phrase that seem to be flying around Harvard's classrooms, all the words that seem to undergo definitional metamorphosis once inside the lecture hall I, for one, could use a course in the academic dialect...
...prison work reforms which a number of the Southern states lately have begun to introduce. As regards the most simple errors of this editorial, Altman inaccurately reports the name of Alabama's governor, Feb James, and clumsily insults the entire South with his depracatory recitation of white Southern dialect, African-American dialect, as once presented in the works of white Southern authors, or the broken English of Yiddish-speaking immigrants, as formerly derided in anti-Semitic media, arguably would arouse different emotions or reactions among those who sneer with Altman in his parody of white Southern speech...
...Michael'sEthiopian Orthodox Church in Cambridge recited thetraditional Coptic Christian orthodox liturgy saidat times of death. The one and a half hourceremony, which began at 6 p.m. Wednesday andwhich included a sermon, readings from the Bibleand a blessing with holy water, was recited inAmharic and the high church dialect...