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A Dictionary of Africanisms-Some Notes

A DICTIONARY OF AFRICANISMS—SOME NOTES Gerard M. Dalgish The Dictionary of Africanisms is a lexical index of terms from African languages that have entered the vocabulary of the English-speaking world. It also includes Africanisms that are not yet so widespread as to be recorded in standard dictionaries of English, but are nevertheless well-known or reasonably common among English speakers in Africa, or fairly familiar to Africanists, and thus may someday come to be part of the general vocabulary. Moreover, the dictionary is an attempt to present a representative view of the African continent …