one-piecee

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Chinese Pidgin English

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Adjective

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one-piecee

  1. one; a
    • 1862, 唐景星 [Tong King-sing], 英語集全 [Chinese English Instructor], volume IV, marginalia, page 32; republished as “Pidgin English texts from the Chinese English Instructor”, in Michelle Li, Stephen Matthews, Geoff P. Smith, editors, Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics‎[1], volume 10, number 1, 2005, pages 79-167:
      㕭灣治𪢍治温卑士羅也
      *ju1 waan1 zi6 get3 zi6 wan1 bi1 si6 lo4 jaa5
      You wantchee catchee one piecee lawyer.
      You will have to engage a lawyer.
    • 1862, 唐景星 [Tong King-sing], 英語集全 [Chinese English Instructor], volume VI, marginalia, page 43; republished as “Pidgin English texts from the Chinese English Instructor”, in Michelle Li, Stephen Matthews, Geoff P. Smith, editors, Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics‎[2], volume 10, number 1, 2005, pages 79-167:
      拜温卑時豁卑乎
      *baai3 wan1 bi1 si4 kut3 bi1 fu4
      Buy one piecee good beef.
      Buy a piece of good beef.

References

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  • Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page 107: “One-piecee: one; a; an.”
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