If you like this website, check out Say it in Crucian! A Complete Guide to Today's Crucian for Speakers of Standard English. The book features everyday phrases in Crucian, a basic linguistics (as compared to Standard English), conversations, stories, retold fairytales, a brief linguistic history of St. Croix and a Crucian/Standard English dictionary. By Robin Sterns. Published by Antilles Press.
Reviews:
"Say it in Crucian! is a reader-accessible guide to the language of St. Croix that combines a wealth of spicy and vividly up-to-the-minute examples with a level of linguistic and sociolinguistic savvy seldom found in popular introductions. It presents its topic in a way that provides fun for the tourist as well as solid information for the expert. If only every creole language had a book like this!" -Derek Bickerton, linguist, author of Bastard Tongues: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World’s Lowliest Languages.
“Mehson you had me craking up on deh chair, my bos looking a me al weird and suh buh me ain mind. Dis book is off deh chain!” - Miguelina Valdes, St. Croix
Buy it:
Response to the book has been positively overwhelming. Thank you, St. Croix!!!
On St. Croix, Undercover Books, the UVI Bookstore, the St. George Village Botanical Garden store, Scale House (National Park Service) Store in Christiansted), the Freudian Slip (in Sunshine Mall), Caribbean Museum Center in Frederiksted and Whim Museum store are carrying the book.
Books are at Dockside Books on St. Thomas.
The book is available on eBay (I can sign/inscribe copies bought from eBay) and on amazon.com.
Contact me:
cruciandictionary@gmail.com
