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== Origin of the word ''ch'ti'' == The word ''ch'ti'', ''chtimi'' or ''ch'timi'' to designate the Picard language was invented during the [[World War I|First World War]] by [[Poilu]]s from non-Picard speaking areas to refer to their brothers in arms from [[Picardy]] and [[Nord-Pas-de-Calais]]. It is an onomatopoeia created based on the frequent use of the /ʃ/ (''ch-'') phoneme and of the /ʃti/ (''chti'') sound in Picard: "''ch'ti''" means ''the one,'' as in the sentence "''ch'est chti qui a fait cha"'' ( he is the one who has done that), for instance.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-11-24 |title=Nos langues régionales |url=http://www.hautsdefrance.fr/langues-regionales/ |access-date=2023-12-20 |website=Région Hauts-de-France |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
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