3 Words to use with patois

The stranger sat upon the capstan, and, in the shadow of the cypress forest, where the vessel lay moored for a change of wind, told in a patois difficult, but not impossible, to understand, the story of a man who chose rather to be hunted like a wild beast among those awful labyrinths, than to be yoked and beaten like a tame one.

"They are beasts of burden without cruppers, Their backs are loaded, Under a bushel their unkempt heads are hidden, They speak a patois unintelligible, You can understand nothing they say.

The striking resemblance of many patois words to those of the English language bearing the same meaninga resemblance that is helped by the Southern pronunciation of vowels and diphthongsmust be referred to linguistic influences far more remote and obscure than the political fact that Guyenne was intimately connected with English history for three hundred years.

3 Words to use with  patois