Sacramento CPE: A Chinese vegetable vender
(Image source: Huntington Library)
Let’s take a break to celebrate that other West Coast pidgin language…
You sabbee?
A Chinese vegetable vender informed his customers yesterday: “No more veg’ble ‘fore Monday. You sabbee, I likee celeblate.“
— from the Sacramento (CA) Daily Record-Union of July 4, 1885, page 5, column 3