Eoin Cameron introduced us to New Guinea Pidgin with a recording of Three Little Pigs (Tripela Liklik Pik).

When Eoin Cameron was a lad living in Mount Gambier, one of the Fathers at his school had spent some time living in Papua New Guinea and taught his class some phrases of Pidgin.

One that particularly caught his fancy was "Faitim ars bilong em" - smack his bottom.

Eoin also told a mischievous story about confusing the word for crocodile (pukpuk) and excrement (pekpek) and how an expat is reported to have come scampering back from the Sepik River exclaiming to all and sundry that he'd just seen a 14 foot pekpek in the river! The locals were agog!

Talking about Pidgin on radio prompted Ralph Newton to send in a copy of Tripela Liklik Pik (Three Little Pigs) he's had since he spent time in PNG in the 60's. Click on the related audio link below if you'd like to hear what Pidgin sounds like.

The back cover of the record says: "This unique story of the Three Little Pigs was translated into Pidgin and adapted to a Melanesian setting by The Reverend Paul Freyberg of the Lutheran mission at Madang. Mr Freyberg was the Chief Translator of the Nupela Testamen - the New Testament in Pidgin. The story was broadcast by Superintendent Mike Thomas in the ABC's Daily Learning Pidgin Series".