Lexicographical Neighbors of Colloquials
Literary usage of Colloquials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Sketches of the Missions Under the Care of the Board of Foreign by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, Board of Foreign Missions (1891)
"Among the more important of the colloquials are the Canton, the Amoy, ...
The difficulty of acquiring one of the colloquials is increased by the use of the ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"You shall understand my joke, and perceive I studied your colloquials. But, never
mind, I shall not plunge myself in your Magazin, nor hurt myself if you ..."
3. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1907)
"... or colloquials, as e called, there is another form of the language, which,
like Latin in the Europe of a few centuries ago, serves all over the empire ..."
4. The Chinese Recorder (1906)
"Not only has the Bible been translated in all of the written dialects, but even
the colloquials have been reduced into writing and the Bible has been ..."
5. The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1907)
"Are we to wait till we are decrepit before seeing the standard version of the OT
translated into our various colloquials ? Finally, as to the number of ..."
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