By then Bell and Sigh had been thoroughly infected by each other's way of speaking. They had each caught the other's inflections and intonations. They slurred the same pairs of words together and identically mispronounced others. They skipped the same conjunctions, maintained the same timbre. By their seventh year, they spoke in a dialect of their own unconscious creation.

— Seven Steeples by Sara Baume (Page 132)