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<DIV><SPAN class=843401623-24022005>Browsing the <EM>Shipping </EM>Gazette, as
one does, I picked up the following usage of <SPAN lang=EN-AU
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</SPAN>which we see in Tok Pisin as <SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">‘malo’
(also <SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">‘mal’
which was Mhialic<SPAN lang=EN-AU
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entry with the attribution <SPAN lang=EN-AU
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I presume <SPAN lang=EN-AU
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in some places).</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt"><SPAN lang=EN-AU><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>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.
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt"><SPAN lang=EN-AU><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000 size=3>T. Beckford Simpson, Nautical
Surveys – Pleasant Island, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Shipping
Gazette and General Sydney Trade List</I>, Vol 1 (12) 8 June 1844, p.85
[Simpson’s visit to Nauru of 1 February 1843]<SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=843401623-24022005><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN
lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">The
questions I have are: (1) is <SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">‘maro’
or <SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">‘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></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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Burton</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left>Dr John Burton</DIV>
<DIV align=left>Research Fellow</DIV>
<DIV align=left>Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program</DIV>
<DIV align=left>Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies</DIV>
<DIV align=left>Australian National University</DIV>
<DIV align=left>ACT 0200 Australia</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT color=#000000><A
href="mailto:john.burton@anu.edu.au">john.burton@anu.edu.au</A></FONT></DIV>
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