The Bahamian version of a calypsonian was also a type of "chaunter" but they were not limited to carnival season. They made sport of the local headlines and gossip in freestyle verse all year 'round.

The commercial equivalent was a "patter" like Carmen Bliss' John Camplejohn in On Bay Street.

And a "cant" (ie: Cantor) was mysterious secret language spoken right out in the open (sound familiar?)

Ephemera: "Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words"