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LOL

wanted to say the same

Me rememba dragline bucket...with lil teeth and everything.

I had more fun ever, with a piece of stick and an old bicycle rim.

That thing went with me everywhere.   

Tha was you roola,as kids we were very active all kinds

of stuff we did for fun.

Tola, I agree with what you say.

There was this old Indian Jajji(from India). He could not read or write English. The supervisor sent him to check the number of a cane punt. After a while he returned with a puzzling look in his face. He supervisor aksed him if he has the number and he said yes. He said one number looked like a haaswa and the other looked like a chuleha. The haaswa was #5 and the chuleha was #8. There you have it from a real Indian

Skelly, I wish some of the old people were still around, so I could talk to them.

There was an old beggar lady we call Nanee, she was one of the last indenture labourers, who said she was tricked with a maid job, but was placed in the grass weeding gang.

Where the local accounts office at Albion is now located, was a large hospital. At the back was the graves site of many original indenture labourers.  Someone in their smarts, decided  to grade the area and  build warehouses.

At the Deeds Registrar's  office in New Amsterdam are two small nearby concrete buildings, that now house all the historical ledgers for Berbice.

I believe the concrete buildings was originally used as British armouries.

A few year ago, some ledgers were on the wet floor and we volunteered to  clean and arrange the books.  But was told approval has to come from GT, that never came.

I believe when we lose our culture, we lose a big part of us.

At the moment we are dealing with a Middle East refugee family in our town and how they can get more involved with others from their culture.        

How about an English word today?

N*I*G*G*A

The name of Gibson's dog in the 1954 British movie ' The Dam Busters'.

Also the name on most Guyana sugar estates.

TURIN

Hey BINNY, wha going on?

is it the place in Italy ?

or the galvanize container.

the container

GAREE

That's where the shroud is kept.

it's a car

GANDA

I'm cool boo. How're you?

PS Aside from Torino, that's the only word I recognise on this list!

Forgive my ignorance, what language is this? 

Hindi words spoken in Guyana from the Bhojpuri dialect

of Eastern UP and Bihar.

a rotten/bad hegg

MAD-HOUSE

whe um deh bubice

BARTAN

Exchanging  a cup ah suga, fa some coconut oil.  

DHARAMSALA

You named one,it's cooking utensils/vessels.

Old age home.

Bhandara

So, if a senior is of old age and he lives his home, is dat a DHARAMASALA.

Also, is it  called  DHARA-MASALA, because they eat a lot of curry Gilbakka.

Don't knock me hea, but like JG, I am trying to understand dem Hindi words, dat me used to know dankey years ago, in me sardine punt days.

A thatched roof shelter ?

the 'meat' day after a wedding

I did not know this.

Yep Angali,some of the words are also Tamil,Urdu and Bengali.

hint..wedding house

The coconut branch/bamboo 'tent' made for weddings.

With the middle bamboo where the wedding takes place.

Or place where they cook/store the food  at weddings.

That name is familiar. 

so is my answer correct

answer highlighted.

Is Khangan/Kakkan

 Bhandara is the cook food storage area.

nope