Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teacher points to a blackboard in a school in Jamaica. As Jamaica continues to loosen its ties with the British monarchy, ...

The lyrical sound of what is often referred to as “Jamaican English,” “Jamaican Creole,” “Patwah,” or “Patois” is familiar to many non-Jamaicans around the globe via the popularity of musical genres, ...

What's worse than a bad movie? If you ask linguist Joseph Farquharson, he might say a movie that makes a caricature of the distinct patois of Jamaican accents. When asked to be an advisor on the new ...