Dominican soldiers could tell the nationality of a Haitian by

During the 1937 massacre of Haitians in the Dominican Republic, soldiers used a pronunciation test to identify people. They asked them to say the Spanish word “perejil” (parsley), which was difficult for many Haitian Creole speakers to pronounce in the Dominican way. So the clue was how they pronounced words, not their appearance or clothing.

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