Dictionary of Jamaican English

by Frederic Gomes Cassidy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9766401276
• ISBN13: 9789766401276
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"