cerfiticket
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Jamaican Creole[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English certificate.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cerfiticket (plural cerfiticket dem, quantified cerfiticket)
- certificate
- Mi a guh a RGD fi pick up mi pickney birth cerfiticket.
- I'm going to the RGD to collect my child's birth certificate.
- 2009, Richard Koss, Giamaica (in Italian), →ISBN, page 348:
- “I giamaicani spesso invertono l'ordine delle lettere o le cambiano, dicendo per esempio flim al posto di 'film', o cerfiticket invece di 'certificate' (certificato). […] ”
- Jamaicans often invert the order of letters or change them, saying, for example, flim instead of 'film', or cerfiticket instead of certificate […]