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  • For example, when I’m filled with boonoonoonoos, I’m filled with much happiness!

    ANN DUCILLE ON “ETHNIC” BARBIES » Sociological Images 2008

  • In an odd rendering of cause and effect, the box goes on to explain that “most Jamaicans have ancestors from Africa, so even though our official language is English, we speak patois, a kind of ‘Jamaica Talk,’ filled with English and African words.2 For example, when I’m filled with boonoonoonoos, I’m filled with much happiness!”

    The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999

  • In an odd rendering of cause and effect, the box goes on to explain that “most Jamaicans have ancestors from Africa, so even though our official language is English, we speak patois, a kind of ‘Jamaica Talk,’ filled with English and African words.2 For example, when I’m filled with boonoonoonoos, I’m filled with much happiness!”

    The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999

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  • Beautiful, wonderful, excellent.

    October 5, 2008

  • Jamaican for "special person"

    May 14, 2024