Sacramento CPE: A Chinese vegetable vender

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Let’s take a break to celebrate that other West Coast pidgin language…

You sabbee?

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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

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