Quizzes
How much Patois do you really know?
13 quizzes, built from 2,109 dictionary entries. Miss a word and it links straight to its entry.
- 12 questions
Can You Chat Basic Patois?
Greetings, everyday replies and the small words that hold a sentence together.
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Do You Know Jamaican Food?
Ackee, bammy, bulla, janga — the kitchen vocabulary of the island.
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Can You Read a Jamaican Proverb?
Old sayings that mean something other than what they say.
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How Well Do You Know Dancehall Slang?
The vocabulary of the sound system, the session and the selector.
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Do You Understand Rasta Talk?
Iyaric — the deliberate, word-by-word rebuilding of English by Rastafari.
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How Yuh Feel? Emotions in Patois
Vex, tallawah, bex, irie — describing people and moods.
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Who Is Who in Jamaican Patois?
Family, friends, neighbours and the names you call them.
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Money, Work and Hustle in Patois
Bills, jobs, side hustles and the words for getting paid.
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Bush, Bird and Beast
The animals, trees and weather Jamaicans name in Patois.
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Body and Health in Patois
How Jamaicans talk about aches, looks and feeling under the weather.
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Duppy, Obeah and Jamaican Folklore
Spirits, superstition and the things you do not say after dark.
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Jamaican Culture and History in Patois
Maroons, yaad, dutchie — the words that carry the island’s story.
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Adult language
Real Jamaican speech includes cussing, and people look these words up. They are defined plainly here, kept behind their own heading, and slurs are left out of the quiz entirely — the dictionary records those, a game should not.
How these quizzes are made
Nothing here is written by hand. Every question is generated from the dictionary itself — the headword, its definition, and real example sentences — so a quiz can never teach something the dictionary contradicts. Wrong answers are pulled from the same category as the right one, which is why they are hard: telling ackee from callaloo is a real test, and picking the only food word out of four is not.
Every word you miss is listed at the end with a link to its full entry: meaning, origin, pronunciation and example sentences. That is the whole point of the format.