4 works, cited 132 times across the site. This list is generated from the citations on the pages themselves, so it cannot drift from what the pages cite.
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B. W. Higman, Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture (2008), pp. 151–155, 324–327
Higman documents Bligh's 1793 carriage of the fruit to Kew (hence Blighia sapida), the North Atlantic salt-cod trade that made saltfish the cheap protein of the enslaved, and the dish's standing as the national breakfast. He dates the ackee's arrival later than this capsule does — see the sourcing notes.
Frederic G. Cassidy, Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica (1961), p. 60 [fieldwork 1952–59]
The verb-only passive behind 'Mi baan a London' is described here, and again under The Passive at p. 61; the equative a is at p. 59.
Jamaican Language Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Fi Wi Chatn, Fi Wi Raitn: Writing Jamaican the Jamaican Way (2009), pp. 6–13
The writing system this chart maps to. One symbol per sound, no silent letters, no c outside ch, the four double vowels ai / ie / ou / uo, the palatal ky and gy, the affricates chr / jr / schr, and the nasal marker hn.
Peter Unseth, Proverb Studies: A Practical Manual (2025, version 1.0), p. 88 [CC BY-NC]
The grammatical categories this description uses — clause type, mood, and the sound patterning noted where it carries the proverb — follow Unseth's framework for describing a proverb rather than only translating it.
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