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- i
- I'm, I am
- Ibo
- icening
- icening sugar
- icicle
- idle bob
- if
- if God spare my life; if God give life
- Igbo
- ignorance
- ijittimy
- Ilathera
- ill-convenient
- in
- in quest
- in-a
- in-and-out
- Inagua
- Indian arrowroot
- Indian corn
- Indian spinach
- ingranant
- inherit
- Injun
- ink bush
- ink-berry
- insertion
- inside
- instead
- intelligent
- interbreed
- into
- Irish potato
- iron
- iron critter
- iron taw
- iron-rubber
- ironing stove
- is (1)
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- is (3)
- island
- island bean
- island boy (girl, man, people); islander
- island grits
- islandish
- it
- it is
- itch
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in
prep. [note that the early form na (cf. IN-A) was a general locative prep. corresponding to 'in, on, onto, at' etc. (Hancock p.c.)]
1. [Trin. idem (Winer p.c.); OED, with road, street, way, etc. usage has varied between on and M] on (a street): He lives in East Street (Nassau).
2. [Trin. idem (Winer p.c.); OED on is used in reference to any part of the earth viewed as a surface; in is used with proper names of countries, regions, provinces, etc.; cf. US in Jamaica (the country), but on Jamaica (the island)] on (an island): 1889 In Andros (Gardner 355). In Mayaguana (Mayag.).
◊Some Bahamians distinguish between On Abaco[i.e. the island itself] there are wild hogs as opposed to In Abaco[i.e. the whole district, including the surrounding waters] there's good fishing (White).
3. onto: 1966 He drop one big green [sapodilla] in he head (Crowley 63).
in the cline [from in decline by hypercorrection (cf. DE the)] phr. having tuberculosis. = CONSUMPTED (Eleu.)
in the land [cf. inland] phr. (of an island) in the interior. (Black>
in true [cf. in truth, FOR TRUE] phr. in truth: 1918 Dey t'ought de hunterman was dead in true (Parsons 91). (Mayag.)
Tags: geography, hypercorrection, phrase, preposition
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
Revision: 1.0
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