acrolects

plural of acrolect

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patter
Noun
  • That first crack of thunder, the patter of rain on rooftops and the brief but glorious cooldown.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 4 July 2025
  • Lucas was asked about Yoda’s particular patter, which often found the character doing away with typical sentence structure and essentially delivering his heady insights and mighty koans backwards.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
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“Acrolects.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acrolects. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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