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Examples
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He always used obscure pidgin-English type phrases when speaking to staff who were not actually born in Britain.
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Born-and-bred American-Chinese actors were told to play opium-smoking criminals and kowtowing servants, and to put on pidgin-English accents.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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Born-and-bred American-Chinese actors were told to play opium-smoking criminals and kowtowing servants, and to put on pidgin-English accents.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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Born-and-bred American-Chinese actors were told to play opium-smoking criminals and kowtowing servants, and to put on pidgin-English accents.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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Born-and-bred American-Chinese actors were told to play opium-smoking criminals and kowtowing servants, and to put on pidgin-English accents.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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Born-and-bred American-Chinese actors were told to play opium-smoking criminals and kowtowing servants, and to put on pidgin-English accents.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
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It is difficult to defend an American president who speaks in pidgin-English.
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It wasn't one of those quaint, pidgin-English pamphlets that get Xeroxed for discreet circulation at embassy cocktail parties to get a cheap laugh.
Northlight Hall, Adam, 1920- 1985
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On one level, the current album is an engaging aural travelogue of the Anglo-American power trio's Near and Far East tour (its title is more of the Police's pidgin-English wordplay, bastardising Zen, Jomo Kenyatta and monde, the French word for world).
Zenyatta Mondatta 1980
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Another spoke questioningly in Spanish, and a third began a pidgin-English translation of McWhirter's remark.
Modesty Blaise O'Donnell, P. 1965
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