But when it comes to rendering dialogue he often gets lost in a brier patch of fractured spelling.

"Just don't go sniffing the wrong brier patch, Buck."

Go ahead and throw Phil into that brier patch.

I'm still stealing turkey eggs and running through a brier patch.

One shot left me standing in the middle of a brier patch, another next to a clump of poison ivy.

When they were safely out of the brier patch, Forrest turned to the animal.

Or maybe you could, until you got into that brier patch.

It was forging through the brier patch, not even noticing the briers.

Oh, please don't throw me in the brier patch.

He lived with his wife in a brier patch until the one-eyed weasel killed them both.