The "Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage is the first attempt for over four hundred years to provide an authentic record of current English from the Caribbean archipelago, Guyana and Belize. Drawing its data from a broad range of enquiry through teacher workshops in twenty-two territories in eighteen states, from speech recordings and over one thousand written sources of Caribbean literature, reference works, magazines, pamphlets and newspapers, the "Dictionary surveys a range of over twenty thousand words and phrases and with hundreds of illustrative citations. With a specially designed...

"The New Register of Caribbean English Usage" is a pan-Caribbean publication which seeks to provide a representative sample of the development of Caribbean English usage since 1992, after "The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage" was completed. "The New Register", which was intended to be a companion work to "The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage" on a smaller scale, comprises about seven hundred items, including words with new senses or usages, acronyms, and abbreviations that have emerged out of the ecological and cultural domains of the CARICOM territories, from Guyana to Belize....