Monthly Archives: March 2013

Oil Spill #3

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Two other oil spills happened in Grand Bahama

So I just read an article on The Nassau Guardian’s news site about a third reported oil spill near the island of Inagua. It was reported that the spill was the result of a Haitian sloop sinking because of bad weather conditions and the oil leaked from the vessel. The story goes on to say that this is not a new problem for them etc…

#1. If this the third reported spill, how many unreported spills have there been?

#2. There were talks about drilling for oil in our waters in the past….um MARINE LIFE hello?!!!! They do realize that if an oil spill like what happened in the Gulf in 2010 were to happen in our waters, we’d really be a 3rd world country!

#3. “Monitoring and assessing” is not fixing the doggonit problem if the sunken boat debris is being left to pile up in the marina! Let’s cook with gas and not out in the rock oven people!!

Standing in front of the t.v.

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As a young kid, I remember watching shows with my cousin not from the couch but hours just standing there – in front of the tv. Power Rangers, Barney, The Magic School Bus, Carmen SanDiego… whatever show was on, we stood there like mini zombie, dancing, singing and acting out everything we possibly could. Even commercials…and there were many of them! It seemed like watching tv was watching more commercials than actual show. Continue reading →

Grammar Rules

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There are some basic grammar rules to the way Bahamians speak.

  1. Words the begin with ‘v’ or ‘w’ are often switched so that woman becomes voman, very becomes wery, and worm becomes vorm.
  2. ‘oi’ sounds more like ‘er’ in words like foil, boil and moist becoming ferl, berl and merse.
  3. ‘Str’ seems almost impossible to say since words like strength, strawberry, and strangle are often changed to skrent, skrawberry, and skrangle.
  4. ‘Th’ is sometimes changed to ‘d’ so this and that become dis and dat.

If you can master these four rules, you’re only just at the beginning of speaking Bahamianese.

Here is a list of words you can practice using these rules:

  • wild
  • toilet
  • oil
  • stranded
  • them
  • shrimp
  • welcome
  • visitor