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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:blue'>Re (1): Not listed in Crowley's
Bislama dictionary </span></font></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> John Burton
[mailto:john.burton@anu.edu.au] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, 25 February 2005
10:31 a.m.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Mihalic@anu.edu.au<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> apawley@coombs.anu.edu.au;
Malcolm.Ross@anu.edu.au<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Mihalic] Malo</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:14.2pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Browsing the <em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">Shipping </font></i></em>Gazette, as one does, I picked
up the following usage of </span></font><span lang=EN-AU>'maro' </span>which
we see in Tok Pisin as <span lang=EN-AU>'malo' (also
'mal' which was Mhialic's entry with the attribution
'Gaz.', and I presume 'maro' in some places).</span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:
14.2pt'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Four of the women came alongside, and if
they were a sample, they may be considered rather good looking, having a very
fine expression, black eyes shaded by a beautiful long dark lash, features
regular, figure good, rather inclined to be stout, they appeared naturally
graceful and sage in their manner; their dress consisted of a piece of native
cloth round the waist; the men wore the maro - the usual dress among
nearly all the Polynesian Islands, it is made of several tiers of dried grass,
about eighteen inches long, strung together, and fastened round their waist. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:
14.2pt'><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-AU
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>T. Beckford Simpson, Nautical Surveys
- Pleasant Island, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Shipping Gazette
and General Sydney Trade List</span></i>, Vol 1 (12) 8 June 1844, p.85
[Simpson's visit to Nauru of 1 February 1843]</span></font><font size=2
color=blue face=Arial><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The
questions I have are: (1) is 'maro' or 'malo' also
known in Pijin or Bislama? (2) is there other evidence to attribute it to
Pacific Pidgin English as it may have been in 1843? (3) is the word so common
in Austronesian languages that the balance of probability is that it entered
Tok Pisin locally and independently?</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>John
Burton</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Dr
John Burton</span></font></p>
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