Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-muscled people with broad faces and flat noses. Most Formosans still live in the straw-thatched huts which are the homes of South China's peasants or in the two-story brick houses which are the homes of South China's gentry. Formosans speak a Fukienese dialect, and few can talk to mainland Chinese without an interpreter...
...representative citizens-a few small landowners, many tenants, a few barrio lieutenants or deputy mayors-have come to the town hall to hear speeches by officers of the 5th battalion combat team. The battalion surgeon, a young major who grew up near Bamban, is speaking in Pampango, the liquid dialect of Pampanga and Tarlac provinces. I almost never hear the word "Hukbalahap." Speakers use euphemisms for the Huks-"The New Faces," "The Mistaken People" or "Our Friends Outside...
Pretti clucked sympathetically and went on to the sleek Barca d'Oro, an expensive restaurant. In these elegant surroundings Pretti smiled and bowed politely, but in the dimly lit workers' restaurant in the Via del Gesù he shifted to an easy manner and a broad Milanese dialect. He explained: "I must put myself in harmony with the environment...
...Yvette was of unsound mind. Immaculate in morning coat and pinstriped trousers, Professor Karl Kleist testified that Mrs. Madsen was reacting to a deep-seated persecution complex when she shot her husband for laughing at her Brooklynese. "As far as I am informed," explained the professor, "this is the dialect of the common people. Since it revealed Mrs. Madsen's common origin, she felt insulted...