Many Jamaicans speak “patois” or Jamaican creole in addition to Caribbean Standard English. The following patois words and phrases appear in this report: battyman: “Batty” is slang ...

This is the Gospel of St Luke in Jamaican patois - or more precisely, "Jiizas - di buk we Luuk rait bout im". The sound of the creole, developed from English by West African slaves in Jamaica's ...

Patois has been "long stigmatised with second-class status and often mis-characterised as a poorly structured form of English", said ... change the status of Jamaican Creole, it is now," said ...