pidgin

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Trying to free herself, she began to write in Hawaiian pidgin, a language she both grew up surrounded by and was told by others — including her mother — to avoid out in the world.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2023

Interviewed about her career, her son Michael Hood told Entertainment Weekly that he once asked her why she would agree to do roles in pidgin English.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2023

"I can't relate with the message in Afrobeats but it's entertaining, I love the rhythm, the pidgin accent and I find them genuinely cultural - you can tell this is distinctly African."

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2022

“It is time that this suffering ends for us all. This is what brought me here,” he said in pidgin English.

From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2021

So there was no more unavoidable delay in the bathroom, and it wasn’t long before we were all speaking at least a pidgin variety of French and German.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey