Antiguan Englishn.
/anˌtiːɡ(w)ən ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/, U.S. /ænˌtiɡ(w)ən ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ/, Caribbean English /anˌtiːɡan ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/ The English language as spoken or written in Antigua or by Antiguans.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Caribbean English > varieties of
Jamaican English1880
Barbadian English1890
Jamaican1924
Bahamian English1952
Dominican English1955
Trinidadian English1959
Guyanese English1967
Kittitian1973
Antiguan English1978
1978 C. M. Carmody First among Equals (Ph.D. diss., N.Y. Univ.) i. 16 Within..Antigua as a whole, there coexist two linguistic codes: Standard Antiguan English and ‘Antiguan’ as it is called on the island.
2009 M. A. Murray Island Paradise ii. 85 Her love of English literature..reveals an ambivalent relationship with Antiguan English, and she had difficulty in understanding it after returning years later.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
n.1978