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The correct spelling is patois.
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noun
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The correct spelling is patois. A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
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Definition
noun
- 1.A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
- 2.Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
- 3.Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti).
- 4.Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also has influences from Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi.
- 5.Jargon or cant.
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