Word: niugini
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...Guinea Executive Council that a new national name might plausibly come from pidgin-the colorful fractured English (mirror, for example, is glas bilong lukluk) that has become the lingua franca of the area. To test popular reaction, the council recently decided to name the proposed national airline Air Niugini. Papuans complained that this might be a happy solution for New Guineans but it was a slight to them. Not so, said the council. Besides being pidgin, niugini is made up of two words taken from the most widely used Papuan dialect, Motu. True, answered Papua critics, but surely the council...
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