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This category contains 16 sites:

• Electronic Text Center Liberian Letters - A collection of letters written by African-American settlers in 19th century Liberia.
• English in the West Indies - An essay on the history (present linguistic situation, creole characteristics, lexis), phonology and grammar.
• English Loanwords in Korean: Patterns of Borrowing and Semantic Change - The abstract and references to a paper on Korean Bamboo English.
• english or English? Attitudes, Local Varieties and English Language Teaching - This article discusses the issues surrounding the phenomenon of local varieties of English, those developments which take place where forms of the ex-colonial language have evolved and developed in their own right independently of their metropolitan sourc
• Ghanaian Pidgin English - A demonstration version of a CD. A grammar introduction and samples of Ghanaian Pidgin are included in the demonstration.
• Guyanese Proverbs - Many proverbs in Guyanese Creole and English.
• Language Contact - Is English a creole?
• Language Lessons for Visitors - Anguilla Local News Index - Six brief "lessons" in the form of word definitions
• Language Miniatures - Is `Pidgin English' Just a Makeshift? A sophisticated bridge between languages.
• Local Lingo - A few Anguilla English words and phrases explained.
• Montserrat Creole - an Irish brogue? - An analysis of the alleged Irish influence on Montserrat Creole.
• Oh Gawd, I Vish dis Ig'rance Vud Stop! - An essay on Bermudan English in the wake of the Ebonics debate in the United States.
• Shelta Vocabulary - The Shelta Vocabulary from "The Secret Languages of Ireland", R A S Macalister 1931
• Shelta/Gammon - A paper written by Heather Tondini. "Shelta (Sheldru) is the language spoken by approximately 86,000 Irish Travellers (Ethnologue, 1996) in several countries: Ireland, Britain, U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. Shelta is refe
• The Corpus of Written British Creole: A Users Guide - A description of written Caribbean English creoles
• Trini Talk: A Dialect Poem by Miguel Browne - A poem in Trinidadian English.

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