| Show red river dialect came with the scots pioneers when the hardy scots pioneers fought and conquered sioux and cree in the red river country now known as north and south dakota the intermingling of scots and cree blood and the close trade intercourse brought into being a patois known as red river dialect A mixture of the two tongues it was understandable by both races says a writer in london tit bits magazine bye me I 1 kakatsch killed two ducks with wan shot told the same story to scot and cree many of the words were descriptive such as chim muck for the sound that a large stone or rock makes when it falls into water the indian names for bird and beast were adopted as well as a few french expressions such as cassette tor for a trunk or box while the scots byre was always used by the 1 indians tor for stable the spread of civilization with its ease of intercommunication let into the cree country a flood of white men who understood and talked white mans lingo only similarly pidgin english that odd mixture of chinese portuguese and english which used largely to be the medium tor for business talk talef between the average chinese and the european trader has given place to more correct chinese or english throughout the eastern empire |
