Patois quiz
Do You Understand Rasta Talk?
Iyaric — the deliberate, word-by-word rebuilding of English by Rastafari.
12 questions
18 seconds a question. Faster answers score more, and a run of correct answers builds a streak bonus. Every word you miss links straight to its dictionary entry at the end.
The 12 words this quiz covers
Every one of them has a full entry — meaning, origin, pronunciation and example sentences. Read them first if you would rather study than guess.
- Ancient of Days AIN-shent a DAYZ
- Blessed love BLES-sed LOVE
- Blindgarette BLIND-ga-ret
- Collie COL-lie
- Fullness FULL-nis
- I and I eye-an-EYE
- Irie ites eye-ree EYE-ts
- Ital EYE-tal
- Livity LIV-i-tee
- Nyabinghi nya-BING-gi
- Spliff SPLIF
- Twelve Tribes of Israel TWELV TRIBES