Gullah: an English-African Patois Dating Back to the Days of Slavery

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Gullah: an English-African Patois Dating Back to the Days of Slavery in both Audio and text versions.

I'm getting ready to patch up this net. I'm going to the creek today.
Fetch me back some big old oysters.
Oysters?
Yeah.
I'm going for some fish.
I want some of them single oysters.
I don't know.
Well, if you catch any old rusty (crab), they one with that big rusty on the back, you know?
Rusty and the wife?
Rusty and the wife, yeah.
They fat too.
Yeah, they fat man. They real fat.
You fetch me back some of them, man.
Yeah, if I catch them, I bring 'em back.
I'd like some hominy and oysters. You know, some shrimp might be good too.
Yeah, be good.
Others say shrimp's a worm, but I love him.
Good worm, then.
He's a good worm. Sure is.


Gullah is a patois dating back to the days of slavery (17 sec) (from The Story of English PBS series (Ep. 5)).

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