Hello all, remember me? The one who glibly assured you that I’d be posting more this year? Well, I have been better, but time slips by, and well, you know…
The charming Daphne Wayne-Bough has obviously noted that this blog has been emptier than the manifesto of the British National Party, and has provided me with [...]

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 [...]