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... Gullah Creole , from the Sea Is- lands , U.S. , 1949 Di kaafi kuol . ( The coffee is cold . ) Jamaica , 1966 They some rowdy kids . U.S. , 1968 A siki . ( He sick . ) Surinam , 1972 This my mother . U.S. , 1975 23 It is true that a ...
... Gullah Creole , from the Sea Is- lands , U.S. , 1949 Di kaafi kuol . ( The coffee is cold . ) Jamaica , 1966 They some rowdy kids . U.S. , 1968 A siki . ( He sick . ) Surinam , 1972 This my mother . U.S. , 1975 23 It is true that a ...
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... Gullah people form a special Black American community because they have retained considerable African lan- guage and cultural patterns . Even the names Gullah and Geechee are African in origin - they refer to languages and tribes in ...
... Gullah people form a special Black American community because they have retained considerable African lan- guage and cultural patterns . Even the names Gullah and Geechee are African in origin - they refer to languages and tribes in ...
Contents
Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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