<P> Pidgin derives from a Chinese pronunciation of the English word business , and all attestations from the first half of the nineteenth century given in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary mean ' business ; an action , occupation , or affair ' ( the earliest being from 1807 ) . The term pidgin English ( `` business English '' ) , first attested in 1855 , shows the term in transition to referring to language , and by the 1860s the term pidgin alone could refer to Pidgin English . The term was coming to be used in the more general linguistic sense represented by this article by the 1870s . </P>
<P> Pidgin derives from a Chinese pronunciation of the English word business , and all attestations from the first half of the nineteenth century given in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary mean ' business ; an action , occupation , or affair ' ( the earliest being from 1807 ) . The term pidgin English ( `` business English '' ) , first attested in 1855 , shows the term in transition to referring to language , and by the 1860s the term pidgin alone could refer to Pidgin English . The term was coming to be used in the more general linguistic sense represented by this article by the 1870s . </P>
which english word is thought to be the origin of the word pidgin
which english word is thought to be the origin of the word pidgin
business
business