[Mihalic] Pocket Vocabulary 1942

[Thomas H. Slone]

Helton (c. 1940) wrote a booklet around that time that corroborates 
paper money as "money kunda" (p. 39).  No reference is made to that 
meaning of namba.  Sleep is defined as "sleep (to lie down)" (p. 44), 
which would be consistent with sleeptroo (below).

Helton, E. C. N. (no date). Pidgin English as Used in the Mandated 
Territory of New Guinea with Dictionary of Nouns and Phrases. This 
Language Is Used in Conversation with Natives, Asiatics and German 
White Missionaries. 1st edition. Brisbane: Cocoanut Grove Souvenir 
Shop.

>A friend of  mine recently handed me a copy of A Pocket Vocabulary 
>of Malay, Pidgin English and Japanese Phrases for the use of U.S. 
>Troops in the Southwest Pacific Area, prepared by the Office of the 
>Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, United States Army Services of 
>Supply, Southwest Pacific Area. Printed by the Office of Chief 
>Engineer, USA, SOS, SWPA. Date of Publication, October, 1942. It is 
>pocket sized. He found this copy lying on the ground in a Canberra 
>street.
>
>On checking through the pidgin part, a few interesting words occur.
>
>kali fai  - to hide or secrete [I can't find anything approximating 
>this in Mihalic and have never heard it used in PNG].
>
>kunda mani - paper money [Mihalic has this listed as "konda". Not in 
>common use today?]
>
>namba - a metal tax receipt worn around the neck on a string [not in Mihalic].
>
>sleeptroo (slip tru) - to sleep [not in Mihalic and I don't remember 
>it - does it imply that in the 1940s "slip" meant 'recumbent' and 
>"slip tru" meant to be asleep?]
>
>Dr Bryant Allen
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>Department of Human Geography
>Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
>The Australian National University
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