[The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles G. Leland]@TWC D-Link bookThe English Gipsies and Their Language CHAPTER X 82/100
Tachipen." Specimens of old English Gipsy, preserving grammatical forms, may be found in Bright's Hungary (Appendix).
London, 1818.
I call attention to the fact that all the specimens of the language which I give in this book simply represent _the modern and greatly corrupted_ Rommany of the roads, which has, however, assumed a peculiar form of its own. {75} In gipsy _chores_ would mean swindles.
In America it is applied to small jobs. {81} Vide chapter x. {83} This should be _Bengo-tem_ or devil land, but the Gipsy who gave me the word declared it was _bongo_. {110} In English: "Water is the Great God, and it is Bishnoo or Vishnoo because it falls from God.
_Vishnu is then the Great God_ ?" "Yes; there can be no forced meaning there, can there, sir? Duvel (God) is Duvel all the world over; but correctly speaking, Vishnu is God's blood--I have heard that many times.
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