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Examples
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Goodness me, I can't think how often I have heard that said about the Mighty Sparrow, even as long-time limer by his side as I used to be, I knew that the emeritus kaiso king of the world has been raking in enough cash to settle his children with property, not necessarily here but in New York and about.
TrinidadExpress Today's News Keith Smith 2010
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Goodness me, I can't think how often I have heard that said about the Mighty Sparrow, even as long-time limer by his side as I used to be, I knew that the emeritus kaiso king of the world has been raking in enough cash to settle his children with property, not necessarily here but in New York and about.
TrinidadExpress Today's News Keith Smith 2010
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Perhaps you could post a copy here, so the world can learn of your plight. kaiso says:
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And to all of the police who will write in refuting everything stated, I can prove that this is all true. kaiso says:
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And to all of the police who will write in refuting everything stated, I can prove that this is all true. kaiso says:
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'Mathilda' is his most popular kaiso of all time, released in
AvaxHome RSS: 2008
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And the careful discussion of how the African form would have reached the Caribbean and been preserved should be a model for such things (there are far too many silly African pseudo-etymologies floating around out there). entry in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate says "Trinidad English, alteration of kaiso, perhaps ultimately of Afr origin"; the caution is probably appropriate for a general-usage dictionary, but personally, I'm provisionally convinced by the Efik-Ibibio etymology.
languagehat.com 2008
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The key to the etymology is the recognition that the original form is kaiso; I love the fact that the transmogrification to the highfalutin "calypso" is called, quite properly, folk etymology-the ignorant "folk" aren't always poor and unlettered!
languagehat.com 2008
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'Mathilda' is his most popular kaiso of all time, released in
AvaxHome RSS: 2008
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'Mathilda' is his most popular kaiso of all time, released in
AvaxHome RSS: 2008
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