colloquial
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“I wondered: ‘Do I speak the way I normally speak, the slang, the colloquials?
From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2016
Since then we have had some 1,500 distinct languages, and some 3,500 colloquials, or say 5,000 different forms of speech.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph
My two colloquials burst into a fit of laughter; about what?
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
At the present time 600 of the primary are dead, so that there are about 900 languages now spoken on all the earth, with about 2,500 colloquials.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph
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