What does wu dialect mean?

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wu di·alect

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Wu, Wu dialect, Shanghai dialectnoun

    a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta

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  1. wu dialect

    The Wu dialect, also known as Wuyue or Shanghai dialect, is a group of linguistically similar and historically related varieties of Chinese primarily spoken in Zhejiang province, the municipality of Shanghai, and southern Jiangsu province. Its speakers also populate regions in Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui, and beyond. It is named after the ancient Wu kingdom, a region in what is now southern Jiangsu that is considered the ancestral homeland of the Wu people. It is one of the most spoken variants of Chinese, second only to Mandarin.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wu dialect in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wu dialect in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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  1. Jodi Benson:

    We need to be storytellers, and no matter what we look like on the outside, no matter our race, our nation, the color of our skin, our dialect, whether I'm tall or thin, whether I'm overweight or underweight, or my hair is whatever color, we really need to tell the story.

  2. Elaine Higgleton:

    It's actually been around since the 1990s, and binge is an old Lincolnshire dialect word that made its way into common English in the 19th century, from a very slow start, it has really taken off exponentially as a term people are using every day.

  3. Sam Elliott:

    When I was looking for an agent, I went and met with this guy, they had a portfolio full of photographs and he was thumbing through these photographs and he closed the book and slid the book back over to me and said,' If I was Sam Elliott, I'd go back to Portland, Oregon and if Sam Elliott're going to stay in this town, Sam Elliott should take some voice and diction lessons and learn how to talk and get rid of that dialect.'.

  4. Dave Woodyard:

    You lose languages, you lose dialect, you lose understanding, they've been through a very difficult process.

  5. Sam Elliott:

    I think I grew up thinking about my voice as kind of funny because it had this Southwest dialect to it. I sounded very much like my mom in terms of the dialect, i knew that through this years, particularly as I grew older, that I developed this different sound. So I guess I knew at some point before I got into the business that my voice was going to be part of it.

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