Example 11-292

di nief we Ai kot di miit wid
di
art.def
nief
knife
we
rel
Ai
1sg
kot
cut
di
art.def
miit
meat
wid
ins
the knife I cut the meat with
Comment:
In written Nicaraguan Creole English (just as in written San Andrés Creole English), the first person singular pronoun is spelled with a capital letter, a practice adopted from Standard English.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Nicaragua project questionnaire