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  • Aureli, Nuovo dizionario usuale tascabile del dialetto Bolognese, Bologna, 1851.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Cavalcante, La cucina teorico-pratica over il pranzo periodico di otto piatti al giorno cumulativamente col suo corrispondente riposto, e dettaglio approssimativo della spesa giornaliera, pratica di scalcare e servire in tavola finalmente Quattro settimane secondo le stagioni della cucina casareccia in dialetto napolitano, 4th ed., Naples, 1844.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Vocabolario delle parole del dialetto napoletano, che più si scostano dal dialetto toscano, Naples, 1789.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Guida pratica del dialetto napolitano, Naples, 1877.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • But it seems to me that di Lampedusa is merely using the "lingua"/"dialetto" distinction as it's generally drawn in Italy.

    languagehat.com: MISCONOSCENZA. 2004

  • GUARNE.IO, P.E. Una novellina nel dialetto di Luras in Gallura (Sardinia).

    Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

  • He talked enough for six, but it was all in _dialetto_, so I could not understand him, nor, when I had discovered who he was, did I much try to do so.

    Essays on Life, Art and Science Samuel Butler 1868

  • The Avvocato Negri of Casale-Monferrato says that they have a word in their dialetto which, if ever written, would appear as "vuaitee," it means "stop" or "look here," and is used to attract attention.

    The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868

  • "There are forestieri who come here every year, and who stay for months, and who can talk our language -- yes, and can even swear in dialetto as we can -- but they are not like the padrone.

    The Call of the Blood Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • "But why you speak still the Neapolitan dialetto -- dialect, is it right?

    Prince Fortunatus William Black 1869

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