Manchester

Cool hills, red earth, church bells

Welcome a Manchester, di cool-cool hill parish (Mandeville sits about 2,000 feet up)! Ya-so di earth red wid bauxite, coffee grow sweet pon di hillside dem, an church bell ring out ova di ol' English-style square. Wi a go learn di famous Patois emphasis trick — A run im a run! — chat bout wuk an money, an polish up di respect register fi elders an church.

Lessons in this parish

36. Clefting emphasis — A run im a run! — Front any element with 'A' for focus, and double the predicate for emphasis.
37. Wuk an money talk — Talk about jobs, wages, side earnings and saving: wuk, day-wuk, hussle, pardna, mek money.
38. Church an respect register — Greet elders and church people properly, slide up the register, and give blessings.

Culture from Manchester

Norman Manley — di hero fram Roxborough — National heroes
Red dirt an coffee — Mandeville economy — Work and economy
Chuch bell an free village — faith afta Emancipation — Faith

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Proverbs taught in Manchester

Jamaican proverbs travel; most of these are said all over the island. The parish is where the course teaches it, not a claim about where it started.

Cry-cry pickney neva hab im right.Constant complaining loses you the case you might have won.

Manners kyai yu tru di worl widout a penny.Respect and courtesy open doors that money cannot.

Di higher monkey climb, di more im expose.The more you rise or show off, the more your flaws are on display.

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