Such patois often develops among students, soldiers and other groups to foster a sense of belonging.

ECONOMIST: German dialects: Teenagers�� argot | The

Between shifts I wrote short stories set around the restaurant, trying to capture the feel and patois of the area.

BBC: New England week

And not just in the spa--throughout, there's a subtle Asian accent, but it never overtakes the Caribbean patois.

FORBES: Palmistry

A. absorbed the styles of everything from Jamaican patois to hip-hop lyricism, blending them together in her unique form of wordplay.

NPR: M.I.A.: Rapper and Daughter of Revolution

They have names like Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) and Brick Top (Alan Ford), and they converse in the artful patois that Ritchie continues to sell as echt.

NEWYORKER: Snatch

The nameless old ringmaster of the place, referred to only as Control, was privately convinced that one of his senior figures was a Soviet-run double agent or, in Circus patois, a mole.

NEWYORKER: I Spy

Miguel Senna Fernandes, a lawyer and member of the local legislative assembly, has written plays for a theater troupe that performs in the original Macanese patois, an archaic blend of Portuguese and Cantonese.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

More colorfully, and nostalgically: people screaming through the halls, being hired and fired, attacking the press, leaking, then too tightly controlling information, then leaking, and speaking in the special patois of the Clinton staff, with the famous dialogue evocative of David Mamet as rewritten by Joe Pesci.

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