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Is English we speaking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Mervyn Morris
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Abstract

IN SAMUEL SELVON's The Lonely Londoners (set in the 1950s), Galahad, a Trinidadian immigrant into Britain, is talking with an English woman, Daisy. After their first date they are sipping tea in his basement bedsitter:

‘You get that raise the foreman was promising you?’ Galahad ask, for something to say.

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English Today , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 1993, pp. 18 - 26
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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