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When she was a young child and taking too long to get ready for school, family get-togethers or to sing in the church choir, Cape Verdean musician Carmen Souza was often told to “ariope”. What she did not realise until years later was that the Creole word came directly from the English word “hurry up”.
“We have so many words that derive from the British English,” Souza, a jazz singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, tells the BBC.
‘Alfredo Barbosa was not there’, because if you can understand Portuguese then why don’t you say I went there for someone? Well we didn’t like the song too much then that is we will call in order. He always went ahead that day or yesterday to buy you, there the house so she and me can say my little and see for some day with us with what. I believe there I also was of great assistance then also my very large of her husband I, not. My first cousin told his uncle there of that it does.
Workers load goods on to a ship in Mindelo harbour in Cape Verde. Yachts can be seen in the background. The aquamarine sea is calm.
For several centuries São Vicente’s Mindelo port became a vital refuelling stop…
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