Most words in Jamaican patois, like other English Caribbean patois, are English words filtered through a distinct phonetic system with fewer vowels and different consonant sounds. Patois is written ...
Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2024 Omolora Wilson launched the Signed Sealed Jamaica project on April 7 aimed at teaching aspects of Jamaica’s culture through sign language. The programme will be ...
What’s worse than a bad movie? If you ask linguist Joseph Farquharson, he might say a movie that makes a caricature of the distinct patois of Jamaican accents. When asked to be an advisor on the new ...