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Dictionary of Jamaican English

This is the second edition of the authoritative Dictionary of Jamaican English, first published in 1967. This edition includes a greatly extended supplement and offers a systematic indexing of the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries: Surinam, Guyana, Trinidad, Barbados, Nicaragua and Belize.
Print Book, English, 1980
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980
lxiv, 509 pages ; 25 cm
9780521221658, 9780521118408, 9780521045889, 052122165X, 0521118409, 0521045886
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General introduction; Bibliography; Dictionaries and glossaries cited; Abbreviations; Linguistic Introduction: The Historical Phonology of Jamaican English; Dictionary of Jamaican English; Supplement.