It is not easy to decide from which dialect of Chinese some of the loanwords derive, and this may explain why Philip Leo does not list any as coming from Hainanese nor Tiociu.

You'd never forgive yourself — and then you'd never forgive me, and then pfft, the end of a fine friendship.

We are all together in the same house, and all parties have agreed to the match, and in a fortnite the surrymony will be performed.

When Malone next looked round he was gone. He is one of these Second-coming fanatics, he whispered to Enid. There are a lot of them - Christadelphians, Russellites, Bible Students and what-not.