Cagney with his younger brother, mother and maternal great-grandparents (Credit: Idris Veitch and Wilfred Limonious Around the world, people of Jamaican heritage are starting to reconnect with the ...

Patois becomes En Saison for the evening of Oct. 1. (Dinah Rogers, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) A pop-up called En Saison will take over Patois next Tuesday (Oct. 1). The prix fixe dinner costs $70, ...

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The question of whether modern information technology has a positive or negative effect on global language diversity has been debated since the very beginning of the global online conversation. On the ...

As Jamaica continues to loosen its ties with the British monarchy, momentum is building to make Patois the country's official language alongside English. The proposal was recently floated by the ...

Most words in Jamaican patois, like other English Caribbean patois, are English words filtered through a distinct phonetic system with fewer vowels and different consonant sounds. Patois is written ...

Chet Hanks is defending his use of speaking in a Jamaican patois in a chaotic Clubhouse appearance. Tom Hanks' son has made controversial headlines recently for speaking with a Jamaican accent despite ...

Everytime the importance of patois is raised there is an automatic groundswell of resistance from the refiner populace, as if the encouragement of the Jamaican creole somehow invades or infects the ...

The Bible is, for the first time, being translated into Jamaican patois. It's a move welcomed by those Jamaicans who want their mother tongue enshrined as the national language - but opposed by others ...