Bam brigidim buf! Pengereng!

August 16, 2019

Bileezyan raita Ivory Kelly bring owt wahn nyoo buk kopl weeks abak weh nayhn Pengereng! Wat a gud gud, chroo chroo Kriol wod dat! Plos, Ivory Kelly mi chek wid nof peepl fi si how dehn yooz dis wod. Pahn tap, shee chek di verzhan dehn yooz eena Jumayka, wahn nada konchri weh taak wahn Kriol weh ga di sayhn hischri laik Bileez hischri. Fi ekzampl, shee fain owt dat wail wee seh “pengereng” da Bileez, da Jumayka, dehn seh “bangarang” fu meen di sayhn ting. Ahn, Laad! Wi noh ga “pengereng” eena di fos edishan a di Kriol diskshineri! Soh, wi wahn ad it een fi di neks edishan. Tank yu Mis Ivory! “Pengereng” da wahn wod weh di song a di werd gi ih meenin. Eena Inglish, yu kaal dis taip a wod “onomatopoeia.” Di Kriol frayz “bam brigidim buf” da aalso laik dis!

bam brigidim buf (onomatopoeia) sound of someone falling or colliding, or sudden occurrence of something. (Each word can be used alone. The addition of ‘buf’ means that whatever has fallen cannot be stood up again.) Di fat man faal dong – bam brigidim buf! The fat man fell down kaboom!

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