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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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[or PIGEON] ENGLISH, the lingua franca of the seaports of China, the Straits Settlements in the Far East, consisting in a jargon of corrupted English words with some intermixture of Portuguese and Malay, following Chinese idiomatic usage. It is employed as a means of communication between foreigners and the native Chinese. The word "pidgin" is the Chinese corruption of "business."

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pidgin'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/pidgin.html. 1910.
 
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