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Pidgin English

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
September
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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A gentleman of many years' eiperience in China says that the right word is "Pidgin," not "Pigeon" English. "Pidgin" is the Chinese pronunciation of "business," and it is in the "business" of the Chinese ports that this peculiar dialect is used.- Boston Journal. "Pollies" are strange birds. One beonging to a French lady was good friends with everybody until some one whistled the "Marseillaise" in its hearing, and then it went mad and bit the whistler. v

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News