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Still a deficient language?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Joe Pemagbi
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Abstract

A description and glossary of the ‘New English’ of Sierra Leone

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 20 - 24
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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