Packet 12.docx

1. This ethnic group began the practice of using pale blue paint to drive off ghosts, and gives its children “basket names” or “day names,” which are used internally but never with outsiders. This ethnicity names a language which uses the verb de (“duh”) as an incomplete verb of predication meaning “to be,” irrespective of tense. A pioneering 1949 study by Lorenzo Turner studied the origins of words in this group’s language, in which native users are called binyah, turtles are (*) cootuh, and eating is nyam. The term “badmouth” derives from this people’s language, in which three words meaning "Come by here" form the basis of the song "Kumbaya." For 10 points, name this ethnic group of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, which resides on the Sea Islands off South Carolina and Georgia and speaks a namesake creole long mistaken for poor English. ANSWER: Gullah [or Geechee; prompt on “Sea Islanders”; prompt on “black people”, “African-Americans,” and other polite synonyms for such]