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Geechee

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Gee·chee  (gch)
n. Coastal South Carolina and Georgia
1.
a. The Gullah creole.
b. A speaker of Gullah.
2. Offensive Used as a disparaging term for a person who speaks a nonstandard local dialect, as in Savannah, Georgia, or Charleston, South Carolina.

[Ultimately after the Ogeechee River, Georgia, along which distinctive varieties of Black English were spoken.]


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To protect the habitat that sustains sweetgrass and bulrush and the culture that identifies with coiled basketry, local leaders and the National Park Service have pushed successfully for federal recognition of the Gullah/ Geechee Heritage Area.
as well as BAHASA(Malay-Indonesia), BWAANABA (Kiribati), CATALAN (Spain/France/Andorra), KANNADA (India), KARAKALPAK (Kazhak), MABAAN (Luo), PAMPANGAN (Austronesian) is a 'ladder word' (see Ladder Words 2002279), GEECHEE (English Creole), YEKHEE (Edo), OROMO (Cushitic), KUKUKUKU (Papuan) PERSONALITIES A considerable number of personalities, from various walks of life, have HV names.
Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash: a Geechee Girls Production, 1991.
 
 
 
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