Quotes with dialect

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• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  ― Bayard Taylor
  American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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• Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

  ― Thomas Hardy
  British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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• Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

  ― Doris Lessing
  British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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• There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.

  ― Bastian Schweinsteiger
  German professional footballer (1984 - )
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• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

  ― Walt Whitman
  American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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• What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.

  ― Branford Marsalis
  American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• abbreviated
• composition
• literally
• confident
• mentality
• accretion

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