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TIL about “Bonin English” — a dialect that is an English/Japanese fusion, spoken on the Ogasawara Islands. Previously uninhabited, the islands’ first modern inhabitants were anglophones in the 19th century. The islands went back and forth between the UK, US, and Japan. Today, they are part of Japan.

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