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

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

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