How to pronounce patois
American English pronunciation
PA-twah
- IPA
- /ˈpæˌtwɑ/
- Syllables
- PA · twah (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What patois means
A local form of a language spoken in one area
In a sentence: The fishermen in the village spoke a patois that visitors could hardly follow.
Where it comes from: It was borrowed from a French word for a local way of speaking, around 1635.
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