Dialect has by now been used in so many senses that any definition will automatically be too narrow: for what we have here is a pre-scientific, folk taxonym (though a very useful taxonym) that is incapable of precise definition.

There are hundreds of different types of kisses; and there are kissing Kamasutras available in bookshops to help you add variety to your pashing repertoire.

24 and 35 are relatively prime.

Chungking became the wartime capital of Free China, and Szechwan, that vast, barely accessible province hidden behind steep mountain ranges, became the country’s wartime base.