About the Author

F.G. Cassidy was a well-known linguist and the chief editor of The Dictionary of American Regional English. R.B. LePage taught at the Universities of the West Indies and York. He is the author of numerous publications, including Creole Language Studies, The National Language Question, and Vernacular Literacy.

Reviews

A landmark in the study of creolized languages.
-Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Must surely become a handbook for any student of West Indian culture and society, attaining as it does almost encyclopedic scale in the information given in the description and history of, for instance, the flora and fauna or the products of Jamaica.
-Linguistics

Remarkably well-compiled and interesting
Times Literary Supplement