Dictionary Of Caribbean English Usage
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Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage
This remarkable new dictionary represents the first attempt in some four centuries to record the state of development of English as used across the entire Caribbean region.
Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage
This new edition has been updated to include some of the more recent vocabulary that has come into use, and some vocabulary that are not originally Caribbean, but belong to the wide range of international English usage. Some of these are items of food, where particular dishes are not typically Caribbean but have become absorbed into its cuisine because they were inherited from our British colonizers. Also included are abbreviations and acronyms that are typically Caribbean, representing organizations, institutions, national orders and awards, since some of these items are not always easily accessible.
Dictionary of Jamaican English
Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1967 and then revised as a second edition in 1980, this classic study has never before been available in a paperback edition. This method and plan of the dictionary are basically those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655. The dictionary is a mine of information about the Caribbean and its dialects, about the history of English and its dialects, and about Creole languages and general linguistic processes. Entries give the pronunciation, part-of-speech and usage labels, spelling variants, etymologies and dated citations, as well as definitions. Systematic indexing indicates the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries: Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad, Barbados, Nicaragua and Belize.