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The Story of English episode 9 - Next Year's Words - Part 1 / 7

Explores the use of English in the languages of other countries and provides samples of Pidgin English, patois and numerous other dialects of English, including Barbados English. English pidgins and creoles are found throughout the Pacific, Papua New Guinea highlands. Some linguists feel that English itself is a creole. Provides discussion of Jamaican dub poetry and reggae and discusses the emergence of Jamaican English as the dominant Caribbean English. Discusses the important and distinctive identity of English in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Has a wonderful segment on pidgin English in use by an agriculturalist.

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