Dictionary of Jamaican English

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Edition: 2
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0521118409

Dictionary of Jamaican English

This is the second edition of the authoritative Dictionary of Jamaican English, first published in 1967. Download Dictionary of Jamaican English from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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. The 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. A great deal of care has been taken to trace the etymologies not only of English, Scots and Irish but also of African, Portuguese and Spanish, French, Amerindian, general sea-faring and other words. The Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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