Tee hee – I’m misleading the youth of today into coming to my blog. Aren’t I clever? Well, no, not really. I will of course be mentioning the hippy drug du choix but only in passing – the real weirdness lies further ahead.
LSD (the drug) was one of four things the Swiss have given the [...]

Patois, pronounced pat-waa or sometimes pat-waa-z, is generally held to mean any language that is non-standard. The best bet seems to be that it originated from the Old French Patoier, meaning “to handle clumsily”.
In English, a patois could be a regional dialect or a form of Pidgin English, such as the English spoken in parts [...]