How to pronounce “jamaican” in English

Jamaicans are notoriously late.

British Jamaican bricklayers.

But Jamaicans are notoriously late.

I'm Jamaican and Bahamian, Afro-Caribbean, but I grew up in Miami.

Anyone that knows a Jamaican household, having a Jamaican grandmother who is extremely strong-- she was the matriarch of our family--

all every Jamaican has cousins in those places.

So in that strong Jamaican accent, really good.

Two African Jamaican, and one was a Chinese bride that his parents sent from China, sight unseen, for him to marry.

It was the Jamaican bobsled team.

Just for Jamaican families to come and set up shop early on, like in the '50s and '60s and whatnot.

So the Jamaican example, for instance, is a little-- it fits into a longer story of slavery and industrialization.

I want to cook Jamaican food.

"Should I do my Jamaican oxtail or Grandma's oxtail?"

And the Jamaicans are generally known as a pretty surly group.

They have -- same way Jamaicans are very good at sprinting, and guys from Lake Placid are very good at bobsledding -- Kenyans have taken certain natural and geographical advantages

And he was like an honorary Jamaican man.

So our background is predominantly Jamaican, predominantly first-- well the generation that we know of are Jamaican.

People doubting whether we're Jamaican enough because we wasn't born there.

So that is definitely the Jamaican dish.

for those who are Rastafari or Jamaican who know who that is, great emperor of Ethiopia-- and came back into the country, organized his comrades,

So who could resist the beauty of Jamaican women?

So my grandfather actually had two African Jamaican women with whom he had children.

Of course there's a lot of Jamaican influence, Caribbean influence in Miami because it's so close.

And one morning-- I'm Jamaican, so Jamaicans are notoriously late.

And one morning-- I'm Jamaican-- so know Jamaicans are notoriously late.

That a relationship with Jamaica describing Jamaicans foreigners is absurd. But that's what we do, right, even though Jamaicans have been part of the British

But what I did have is a strong Jamaican grandmother who love to bake.

And we've always been growing up in a Jamaican culture within Britain in the UK.

So certainly if I go to Jamaica and learn from a Jamaican coach, they have some tips and tricks to teach somebody who has absolutely

And again, being Jamaican, I could never go anywhere and speak-- my mother would slap me, literally-- Patois, because it's embarrassing.

Probably the most interesting to me is actually the way that Jamaican drug gangs in Kingston have used urban planning decisions made in the 1960s

was Q-tips favorite spaghetti recipe or Lauryn Hill loves Jamaican food mon.

Baratunde Thurston: “My girlfriend is Chinese and I’m half Jamaican, half regular black.” So let’s just pause on “regular black.”

tan, a Jamaican dance-hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a" -- and I'm going to omit the rest.

telecom company called Digicel and it's a Jamaican-Irish company

uh few years back I went to the the Jamaican International jerk Barbecue

Cookoff flew Down To Jamaica half the judges were Jamaican the rest of the judges from all over the world so what

it's Cubans it's bahamians it's Haitians it's Jamaicans it's Colombians I mean

It includes breakfast creations, dinner items like Jamaican dishes from Pinky's childhood, tapas and small plates created to celebrate and invoke

So I'd love to show everyone this clip of you walking out with the Jamaican bobsled team for the opening ceremony.

She may not be Jamaican, but she Black.

So I hooked up with my Jamaican bobsled friends.

So you with Jamaican, Black English, and English, I look at you, and I think, you're better.

She would say, I'm Jamaican.

And it may be difficult for Jamaican bands to tour, because of visa, finances, or whatever it is.

That's a Jamaican dude.

And the sun made its arc through the cobalt expanse of the Jamaican afternoon sky.

She looked Chinese, was being raised by African Jamaicans, and nobody wanted her.

Because the Jamaicans are a very unruly people.