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Thread #148304 Message #3443231
Posted By: Gda Music
27-Nov-12 - 03:38 PM
Thread Name: 'De' vs. 'The' in Carribean folk songs
Subject: RE: 'De' vs. 'The' in Carribean folk songs
The Book of Jamaica - Pleasure Island
Esther Chapman (Arawak Press - c1958).
A quote from a paragraph dealing with "The Jamaican Language".
"The insertion of a vowel as in "cyan" for "can", and "cyard" for "card" is supposed to derive from Gaelic and there are other Anglo-Irish influences, for instance the use of "d" for "th", as in "mudder" (mother), "de" (the), "dat" (that)".
GJ