Subject: RE: What is "bacra"?
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:15:52 -0400


This is a multi-part message in MIME format.


There is an Oxford Dictionary of Caribbean English. I believe there is an
entry for baccra there, but need to go to my office at school to check it
for you. My memory tells me that you are correct: it carries the sense of
sahib, etc.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
[mailto:owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of Cho
Kyu-hyung
  Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 1:17 AM
  To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
  Subject: What is "bacra"?


  Dear Members,
  Reading Walcott's <Pantomime>, I found the word, "bacra."   I guess it
means boss, sahib and so on.  It's not in OED, Webster, etc.  Any body got
any clue to the origin and use of the the word?
  Thanks in advance,

  http://web.korea.ac.kr/~hyungcho

HTML VERSION:

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu [mailto:owner-postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu]On Behalf Of Cho Kyu-hyung
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 1:17 AM
To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Subject: What is "bacra"?

Dear Members,

Reading Walcott's <Pantomime>, I found the word, "bacra."   I guess it means boss, sahib and so on.  It's not in OED, Webster, etc.  Any body got any clue to the origin and use of the the word?

Thanks in advance,

http://web.korea.ac.kr/~hyungcho