Meanings of local dialect in English

The soldiers were practiced and efficient and familiar with the local dialect.

He spoke classical Arabic rather than local dialect, indicating he was not Iraqi.

The occasional use of local dialect makes its own colourful contribution.

He speaks in a frantic, local dialect, shouting and pointing up the road.

His roof leaks; he can't speak the local dialect.

I had to open it by singing the Lapland national anthem in a local dialect.

The one-eyed man offered Nassim a cup, grunting as though unfamiliar with the local dialect.

The first verse in the "White Horse Ballad," written in the local dialect, was:

He cried out, something in the local dialect.

That made for great conversations with every type of person - 'Oh, you know the local dialect!

How's your skill at the local dialect?'

He had a very pretty daughter, who spoke a delectable mixture of Yorkshire and the local dialect.

The Newcastle novelist talks to Alison Flood about his inspirations -Lindisfarne, the shipyards, and his local dialect

Whenever the bosses discussed important business between themselves, they spoke in their local dialect, so the workers wouldn't understand.

Following McCarthy's departure to the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT hackers refined the language into a local dialect dubbed MACLISP.

Both grew up in Beijing, and felt most comfortable expressing themselves with the raw, guttural force of the local dialect.