of the information that "done" was an auxiliary verb, observing that the 20th century reports by Hosali and others state that this is not a characteristic of 20th century Butler English.) various lexical similarities including "died" being used instead of "dead" He notes various dissimilarities, however: Butler English uses "been" as an auxiliary verb whereas SAIE does not. Because of pronoun deletion, "is" can begin a sentence in Butler English, whereas such pronoun deletion is less common in SAIE. Butler English has no clear examples of "-s" as a possessive, whereas in SAIE that have a 15/17 occurrence rate. Butler English does not share SAIE's use of "only" as a focus marker Butler English does not share SAIE's use of "got" as an existential Butler English does not share SAIE's occasional subject–object–verb word order (e.g. four children got for "I have four children.", after pronoun deletion), although he observes that the famous quotation reported by Schuchardt contains one object–verb example: little milk give it Butler English does have various lexical forms found in SAIE, such as look-attering, no fadder, hawa, and dawa Further reading , which can be found translated and edited in: (reprinted in 1903 by W. Crooke) , also published as: References English-based pidgins and creoles Indian English Languages attested from the 2nd millennium Languages extinct in the 20th century Butlers Culture of Chennai 20th century in Chennai