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- proper noun Alternative form of
Bislama .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Chinamen learn Pidgin English in a few months, and savages in the South Seas master Beach-la-Mar almost as quickly.
Chapter 12. The Future of the Language. 1. English as a World Language Henry Louis 1921
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How far English has proceeded toward the complete obliteration of inflections is shown by such barbarous forms of it as Pidgin English and Beach-la-Mar, in which the final step is taken without appreciable loss of clarity.
Chapter 12. The Future of the Language. 1. English as a World Language Henry Louis 1921
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For a discussion of this effect of contact with foreigners upon a language see also Beach-la-Mar, by William Churchill; Washington, 1911, p. 11 ff [back]
Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 4. Foreign Influences Today Henry Louis 1921
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French zone (though far less commonly) a little French-English, or an efficient pidgin, what is called to the westward 'Beach-la-Mar,' comes easy to the Polynesian; it is now taught, besides, in the schools of Hawaii; and from the multiplicity of British ships, and the nearness of the States on the one hand and the colonies on the other, it may be called, and will almost certainly become, the tongue of the Pacific.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Church, William: Beach-la-Mar: the Jargon or Trade Speech of the Western Pacific; Washington, 1911.
Bibliography 11. Other Colonial Dialects of English. b. Beach-la-Mar Henry Louis 1921
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Beach-la-Mar, by William Churchill, former United States consul-general in Samoa and Tonga.
Chapter 12. The Future of the Language. 2. English or American? Henry Louis 1921
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