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Updated: May 31, 2025
I had conceived, that there would be no more difference between French and Patois, than between the better and the lower dialects of Scotch and English; but the very words are here changed: A carter asked the landlord with whom we were conversing, for a "Peetso morcel du bosse," "petit morceau du bois."
She could not tell how I might take it; but she quickly rallied, burst into a loud screeching laugh, and, with her old Walpurgis gaiety, danced some fantastic steps in her bare wet feet, tracking the floor with water, and holding out with finger and thumb, in dainty caricature, her slammakin old skirt, while she sang some of her nasal patois with an abominable hilarity and emphasis.
It is too often forgotten, in regard to French patois leaving out of count the languages of the South that the words or expressions that are no longer in use to-day are but a survival, a still living trace of the tongue and the pronunciation of other days.
The child glanced swiftly at his mother as though asking permission to reply as he wished, then back at Ranulph, and was about to speak, when Guida said: "I have not taught him the Jersey patois, Ranulph; only English and French." Her eyes met his clearly, meaningly. Her look said to him as plainly as words, The child's destiny is not here in Jersey.
Then she talked the French-English patois of the emigrants from Canada, and told of their funny attire, and their log huts, sometimes with only one big room, with a stone chimney in the centre, and sawed logs for seats. "They did that in Salem nigh on to two hundred years ago," said Cousin Eunice. "How much people do learn by living," remarked the little girl sagely. Then the olden round began.
'You see, she said to the Dictator, 'he understands me! I have been saying in Sicilian patois that he is a hired assassin born in England of Sicilian parents, and brought up, probably, near Snow Hill and this Whitechapel gentleman understood every word I said!
On a heathery slope at the foot of the first terrace the Corsicans set down poor Nat and spoke a word to their mistress, who presently halted and exchanged a few sentences with them in patois; whereupon they stepped back a few paces into the macchia, and, having quickly cut a couple of ilex-staves, fell to plaiting them with lentisk, to form a litter.
'What would you say if I showed you a better in my own stable? I saw that his words sent a kind of thrill through his other hearers, and that such of them as understood for two or three of them talked their PATOIS only looked at him angrily; and in a twinkling I began to comprehend. But I affected dullness, and laughed in scorn. 'Seeing is believing, I said.
What annoyed me most was that the letter was written in patois, and was full of mistakes in spelling I who won every prize at the university! I began by giving my rascal a cuff that made him twist round and round. 'Aha! You take me for a thief, blackguard that you are! I said, and I gave him a hearty kick, you know where.
At the best they utter impertinences which, issuing from a big and barbarous mouth in a peculiar patois, pass for pleasantry amongst those who are not over-nice about the quality of that article. The tone of voice is peculiar; it is pitched in the usual savage key, modified by the twang of the chapel and by the cantilene of the Yankee originally Puritan Lancashire.
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