“Chee Chee isn’t going to Jamaica with me, so I’m pretty sure that nothing will happen.” This is an excerpt from my second book, Pirates at Port Royal. The truth is that such a sentence probably would not come out of the mouth of the average child in St. Kitts. It is more likely to look like: “Chee Chee not…
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English as a Foreign Language
My children began their schooling in the United States. One afternoon, shortly after they moved here, I overheard them speaking about one of their friends and they mentioned that he or she spoke “Kittitian”.