"W" words...

WORD: WHOLEHEAP
MEANING: a lot
SENTENCE: Mi ha WHOLEHEAP fi do.
TRANSLATION: I have a lot to do.

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"W" Words

WORD:                            WINE (wine)
MEANING:                      It means to dance, sometimes seductively. (It appears in every West Indian
                                          dialect and is literally a corruption of "wind.")
SENTENCE:                    She de pon di dance floor a wine up herself.
TRANSLATION:            She is dancing seductively on the dance floor.

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This is funny!

This is sure to put a smile on your face. If you watch part 1 first it' much funnier.

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"W" words

WORD: WHATLEF

MEANING: What's left over
SENTENCE: Whatlef fi dinna?
TRANSLATION: What's left for dinner?

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More "W" words....

WORD: WH'APPEN?

MEANING: What's happening?

WORD: WINJY

MEANING: Thin and sickly looking.

SENTENCE: Wh'appen, you look winjy?

TRANSLATION: What's happening, you look thin?

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Another "W" word

WORD: WA MEK?

MEANING: Why?

SENTENCE: Wa Mek you say that?

TRANSLATION: Why did you say that?

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A "W" Wprd/Phrase

Whole Heap

MEANING: A lot.

SENTENCE: Mi no have whole heap a money.

TRANSLATION: I don't have a lot of money.

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A "W" word

WORD: Waday

MEANING: Adverbial phrase, the other day. 

SENTENCE: Mi did see you waday.

TRANSLATION: I saw you the other day.

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A few Y words & Phrases

WORD: Ya No See it

MEANING: You know?

YAHSO: here (place)

WORD: Yahso

MEANING: Here

SENTENCE: Mi wallet was  Yahso

TRANSLATION: My wallet was here.

WORD: Yai

MEANING: Eye

SENTENCE: Look ina mi yai.

TRANSLATION: Look in my eye.

WORD: Yard

MEANING: home

SENTENCE: Mi a go a mi yard now.

TRANSLATION: I'm going home now.

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Another One word...Y

WORD: Yabba

MEANING: A big clay pot used for cooking.

SENTENCE: I'm going to cook dinner in the Yabba 

TRANSLATION: 

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One Word..."Y"

WORD: Yout

MEANING: a child, a young man, an immature man

SENTENCE: Why Daddy a act like yout so? 

TRANSLATION: Why is Dad acting like a child?

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One Word...Z

You can learn to speak like a Jamaican, one word/Phrase at a time:

WORD: Zion

MEANING: Ethiopia, Africa, Rastafarian Holy Land

SENTENCE: Haile Selassie dey fran Zion

TRANSLATION: Haile Selassie is from the Holy Land.

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