When you coming
walk with two limes.
When you're coming bring two limes.
He doesn't have any mangoes, he has empty figs.
He doesn't have any mangoes, he only has bananas.
Jamaica
As mentioned before, Jamaica's speech is quite complex. It has a number of
peculiarities, some pervasive and strong, others not. The strong and pervasive
ones are in pronunciation. The omission and addition of [h] at the beginning of
a word or syllable have occurred in the history of many languages (for example,
the French pronounce hotel as otel, keeping the [h] silent). In
the Caribbean, this feature is only characteristic of Jamaicans. It is
prominent because it is pronounced at the beginning of words which begin with
vowels, and not pronounced where the [h] actually does occur. The following
words are some examples:
Antiguan speach has a number of peculiarities,
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