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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Flares117 on 2025-01-31 08:52:38+00:00.

Original Title: TIL: There is an infamous 1855 book, “English as She Is Spoke” which a very poor Portuguese to English guidebook which became popular for it’s unintentional humor due to the broken English. Examples include, “What do him?”, “I have mind to vomit”, and “The walls have hearsay.”