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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 930 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PATOIS  , a

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French
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term strictly confined to the
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dialect of a
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district or locality in a
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country which has a
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common
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literary
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language, often used of the
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form of a common language as spoken by illiterate or uneducated persons, marked by vulgar-isms in
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pronunciation,
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grammar, &c . The origin of the word is not certain . It has been taken to be a corruption of patrois, from
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Low
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Lat. partriensis, of or belonging to one's patria, or native country, fatherland .

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