The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage

by Jeannette Allsopp and Richard Allsopp

This unique reference is the first attempt in over four hundred years to provide an authentic record of current English from twenty-two territories in the eighteen states of the Caribbean archipelago. The Dictionary surveys a range of over 20,000 words and phrases drawn from over 1000 written sources. A specially-designed system of labelling--four levels of identification from Creole to Formal and labels to denote social or grammatical register--provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198661525
• ISBN13: 9780198661528
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 776 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"