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Frederic G. Cassidy (10 Oct 1907 - 14 Jun 2000), Jamaican-American linguist and lexicographer, born 115 years ago today, in Kingston. Founder, Dictionary of American Regional English. Advocate for the #Jamaican language; pioneer of autonomous orthographies for creole languages. Image
1961 Cassidy System, developed specifically for Jamaican, uses a phonemic system that closely reproduces the sound of the language; later adopted and modified by the Jamaican Language Unit (JLU) at the University of the West Indies.
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"Of primary interest in the Frederic G. Cassidy papers are his 1952 sound recordings of everyday Jamaican people. The recordings are itemized and described according to a typed inventory found among the papers. 1/2
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