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How can you use “dosae” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
On the whole, I recommend DOSAE highly for anyone wishing to get to grips with English in South Africa.
(To be consistent, the DOSAE would have to indicate the word for left in all languages that appear in road signs in different parts of the country--Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho and Tswana).
Many of the Afrikaans words in DOSAE are similarly illustrated from examples involving bilingual word play by creative writers.
Slegs is one of the relatively few items marked in the DOSAE as Afrikaans, rather than English.
According to the Branfords' own calculations (made in 1988) the source languages for items in the DOSAE were 48 per cent Dutch/Afrikaans; 29 per cent English (i.e., neologisms); 11 per cent Bantu languages, and 12 per cent other.
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