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Example 12-273
I can't cut bush. All the sickness, see, right on these toe - dark. The sickness lef' the body and they gone - down in the toe.
[...]
[...]
right
right
on
on
these
dem
toe
toe[
pl
]
[...]
[...]
down
down
in
in
the
art
toe.
toe[
pl
]
[...] look at these toes [- dark. The sickness left the body and went] down into the toes.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Own sociolinguistic interviews
Language:
Bahamian Creole
by
Stephanie Hackert
cite
Datapoints:
'Finger' and 'toe': Differentiation
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