Why "chile" instead of "child"?
Is it a kind of slang?
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Jump to PostI'm going to quote Wikipedia on this one.
"Voodoo Chile" uses a phonetical approximation of "child" pronounced without the "d", a spelling that was also used for Hendrix's song "Highway Chile".
Jump to Postnot slang,
a dialect,
complete enough to be a distinct language.Slaves werent taught, the local patois are phonetic representation of the owner's English, Many dropped terminating consonants, dropped dipthongs. Anglicised Creole, mixed with many words from West African languages
Jump to Postthese are not distortions, they are dialects, languages. they developed precisely the same way as all the major languages, just accelerated by the need for immediate communication under stress. A little reading would have shown the derivation of these, and all other languages, without the need for such an offensively …
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