human
Gombo --compounded of many odds and ends, with the okra-plant, or true gombo for a basis, but also comprising occasionally
gpt
and the other vegetables sold in bunches in the French market. At all events, any person who has remained in the city for a season must have become familiar with the nature of
human
gpt
and
human
or as our coloured cook calls it
gpt
--for she belongs to the older generation of Creole _cuisinières_, and speaks the patois in its primitive purity, without using a single
human
Her daughter, who has been to school, would pronounce it _gombo zhairbes_:--the modern patois is becoming more and more Frenchified, and will soon be altogether forgotten, not only throughout Louisiana, but even in the Antilles. It still, however, retains originality enough to be understood with difficulty by persons thoroughly familiar with French; and even those who know nothing of any language but English, readily recognize it by the peculiar rapid syllabification and musical intonation. Such English-speaking residents of New Orleans seldom speak of it as
gpt
Creole : they call it _gombo_, for some mysterious reason which I have never been able to explain satisfactorily. The coloured Creoles of the city have themselves begun to use the term to characterize the patois spoken by the survivors of slavery days. Turiault tells us that in the town of Martinique, where the Creole is gradually changing into French, the _Bitacos_, or country negroes who still speak the patois nearly pure, are much ridiculed by their municipal brethren:--_Ça ou ka palé là, chè, c'est nèg;--Ça pas Créole!_ (
human
What you talk is 'nigger,' my dear:--that isn't Creole! ) In like manner a young Creole negro or negress of New Orleans might tell an aged member of his race: _Ça qui to parlé ça pas Créole; ça c'est gombo!_ I have sometimes heard the pure and primitive Creole also called
gpt
Congo
human
has perhaps even more varieties than there are preparations of the esculents above referred to;--the patois has certainly its gombo févi, its gombo filé, its
gpt
--both written and unwritten. A work like Marbot's
human
Bambous would deserve to be classed with the pure
gpt
;--the treatises of Turiault, Baissac, St. Quentin, Thomas, rather resemble that fully prepared dish, in which crabs seem to struggle with fragments of many well-stewed meats, all strongly seasoned with pepper. The present essay at Creole folklore, can only be classed as