2 in the top 10 most searched-for slang words this year in our country ... 7 was ‘Bomboclat’ with 11,000 searches and refers to a Jamaican slang word to express shock. No.

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

In 1964, the FCC and the FBI conducted an investigation into the lyrics of "Louie Louie" after complaints of obscenity.

A creole language forms when two different languages mix into a new language, like Haitian Creole which is a mixture of French and West African languages, and Jamaican Patois, a mix of English and ...

Ghanaian musician Stonebwoy and his wife Dr Louisa have surprised a superfan, Black Farayi with an undisclosed amount of cash ...

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), according to Wikipedia, is the “organisational frameworks that seek to promote the ...

Singing in Jamaican patois, Rihanna confused most international ... you can understand everything someone means without even finishing the words.” While many listeners were hooked by the earworm ...

One notable thing about Cantonese in Hong Kong is that it often incorporates words from other languages. In fact, quite a few slang phrases originate from Japanese and have become a part of daily ...

If learning more Cantonese slang is one of your goals for the new year, this guide can be a good start. We have picked five of our favourite phrases and idioms that were popular this past year ...