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Example 12-271
I had a Lifebuoy soap in my pocket, wrap up in a tissue. Yeah, to wash my hand when I finish.
[...]
[...]
to
to
wash
wash
my
my
hand
hand[
pl
]
when
when
I
I
finish.
finish
[I had a piece of soap in my pocket, wrapped up in tissue,] to wash my hands after I had finished.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
'Hand' and 'arm': Overlap
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