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In Marshallese, the language of Bikini Atoll, hello and bye alike are conveyed in the word kwe, which also means love.i In English, the expression bye was once similarly fulsome: God be with you.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In Marshallese, the language of Bikini Atoll, hello and bye alike are conveyed in the word kwe, which also means love.i In English, the expression bye was once similarly fulsome: God be with you.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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I suppose we will never know what goes through his head before a show, though he feared for his life after it and ran out the back door, and I like to thin kwe had something to do with it.
…the former cast of Neighbours, Part II « Sven’s guide to… 2005
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Global English iIn a playful folk etymology, speakers of Marshallese have given new meaning as a compound word because it sounds like iia + kwe, “rainbow” and “you.”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Global English iIn a playful folk etymology, speakers of Marshallese have given new meaning as a compound word because it sounds like iia + kwe, “rainbow” and “you.”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Umbono wokwakhiwa kwe AU wavuselelwa ubuholi base Afrika ngo 1990 okwalandelwa yi-Sirte Declaration eLybia mhla zingu 9th kuMandulo ngo1999 ebicela ukwakhiwa kobumbano lwe Afrika (AU).
Speech by MP Sibande on the Foreign Affairs debate on the African Union Government 2007
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Ukukhawulelana nalombono, isebe lezemfundo eNtshona koloni lizakuqesha abafundisi ntsapho abangapha kwe Waka elinamakhulu amathathu.
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Loluhlelo kumele luhambisane nohlelo lokuvuselelwa kwe Africa, i African Renaissance ne NEPAD.
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Kulo-kwabo mali, siletha enkulu inguquko kwintela njengoba sizama ukuthu-thu kisa oso mabhi zinisi abasa khulayo nalezonhlangano ezingasebenzeli inzuzo, njengoba kwe nziwa emhlabeni jikelele.
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"Great Coyote People" (Sá-ni-a-k'ia-kwe, or the Hunting Order), their keepers, the chosen members of the Eagle and Coyote gentes and of the
Zuñi Fetiches Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45 Frank Hamilton Cushing 1878
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