Black Talk - Being Notes on Negro Dialect in British Guiana, With (Inevitably) A Chapter on the Vernacular of Barbados #246222

Many of the words, word-senses, idioms and phrases heard to-day are dying out. In a few years they will have gone underground with the last of the old people. There is no medicine against old age says the Yoruba proverb. It is therefore well that they should be put on record one-time.