Did you know that in the dialect of Jamaica, Trinidad, and other Caribbean lands, folks carry people and walk with things?

The pies have different prices on each island, too. A slice of pie in Kingston is $2.20, in Port-of-Spain the same slice is $3.25, while in Nassau it's a whopping $5.50.
These are the pie rates of the Caribbean.

I find many Carribean accents difficult to understand  

British English is like that too.

It has very many regional accent and dialects, and these can be wonderful, from straightforwardly non-standard grammar to colourful phrases.

"Where's it to?" (asking an object's location) - common in some parts of Southern England

" ... then go through the obbly-eyed gate", said a farmer on whose land some friends and I had inadvertently trespassed when walking in the Gloucestershire countryside, directing us to the lane we wanted. We found an 'obbly-eyed' gate is one falling to bits - or is "going home" as more widely described.


"That lass, she's right common!"
"Aye, and her sister's no better than she should be!" - one does not like to enquire too deeply into the alleged misbehaviour of these Midland / Northern English sisters.

'Aye' = 'yes', probably the Nordic ja, from the many Scandinavian settlers, language and all, after the Romans had left. 

"It were a right good do, were that!" - Clearly, the cited Northern English, (particularly Yorkshire?) event had deserved this great approval. The 'i' in right seems to vary from a sort of aai to ee sound across only several tens of miles, too.   

"Go through the twitchel past the church". To this day I do not know the regional origin of the word "twitchel" even though it was once used regularly in my family. It is a narrow footpath, typically bounded by woods or buildings, but apparently not an alley, close or ginnel. 


"The Geate A-vallen' To" - ('Falling to', closing) - The poem by Dorset (S. England county) linguist and writer William Barnes, written in Dorset dialect and accent.