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Pirates and Kleinecke’s etymology of “pidgin”

Posted: November 15th 2004 03:14. Last modified: August 13th 2009 14:04

It is suggested that an old Spanish slang word has nothing at all to do with Dutch pirates but instead adds weight to David Kleinecke’s generally discarded South American etymology of the word “pidgin”.

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