Local variety of speech (7)

I believe the answer is:

dialect

(Other definitions for dialect that I've seen before include "Local language variant" , "Patois" , "Regional form of word" , "Talk of the district" , "Vernacular" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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