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- Title
Bey or bouy: Orthographic patterns in Bahamian Creole English on the web.
- Authors
Oenbring, Raymond
- Abstract
This paper is the first study of the orthographic patterns of speakers of Bahamian Creole English (BCE) when attempting to write their language in online environments. For the study, a corpus of 2.5 million words was retrieved from the online forum site <www.bahamasissues.com>. Corpus-linguistic software packages were used to determine keywords, concordances, and token frequencies. The study finds that there exists evidence of a non-codified common core of spellings in BCE, a pattern that has not up to now been described in an academic publication. The piece has implications for future lexicographic and orthographic studies of BCE.
- Subjects
ENGLISH Creole dialects; LINGUISTICS; ENGLISH orthography &; spelling; TELEMATICS; LEXICOGRAPHY
- Publication
English World-Wide, 2013, Vol 34, Issue 3, p341
- ISSN
0172-8865
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/eww.34.3.04one