Ya Know Ya is a Bajan When......Jokes

You 'tink you is a real Bajan? 

Whether you're a Bajan or simply a Bajan at heart, you'll recognize and appreciate the unique flavor of the Bajan dialect. Think you're a real Bajan? Read on to find out. 

A very funny email continually goes around to fellow Barbadians around the world about famous Barbadian sayings and we're so sure that as is the case with the internet, as this email was sent from 1 person to another the list grew larger and larger with more famous sayings. 

A+ Tours & Events would love to credit the authors for their fine collection, but unfortunately we haven't been able to source the person/persons who took the time to pull this classic list together excluding Totally Barbados.

Ya Know Ya is a Bajan When...... 

-- You refer to a national/public holiday as a 'bank holiduh' or a 'bank' 

-- You know to 'curse' someone doesn't mean putting a spell on them 

-- Jug is somethin' ya eat and not somethin' ya does put ya food in 

-- Ya does move 'scruffy' 

-- 'Cheese on bread' ain't got nuttin' to do wid being hungry 

-- Ya uses words like fowl cock, rock stone and ram goat 

-- Somebody stupid is actually a poppit 

-- Every childhood game can be played for licks 

-- Soup is water, nuff dumplings, potatoes, yams, eddoes and any other ground provision ya could find 

-- You consider any hot beverage to be 'tea' - cocoa tea, coffee tea, tea tea, green tea 

-- You finish your sentences wid de word 'dennnnnn' 

-- You call an avocado a 'pear' 

-- You take sick people to the 'horse-pit-al' 

-- IMF means - I man father 

-- You can buy a pint n half of cockspur in a rumshop without anyone asking you for ID even though you're only 12 years old 

-- You say 'dat eaaaaasy' instead of 'no problems' 

-- You have a bad fall and ya either 'lick up', 'breck up', skin up or catspraddle 

-- You play football on de 'parse-ture' 

-- The word horn does not conjure up images of Dizzy Gillespie or Jazz 
music 

-- 'Horning' has no association with jazz music. 

-- Tek is more than the name of a toothbrush 

-- Dub is the force, dub is...the.....force!!!! 

-- You wonder why people are always 'playin' de fool', doing 'bare foolishness' or 'sky larking' 

-- Anything in the distance is 'yonder' 

-- De cardinal points are eass, wess, norf and sowf 

-- Yuh constantly explaining dat de dolphin you does eat is not 'Flipper'! 

-- A 'cutter' is not a sharp utensil 

-- You call a machete a 'cutlass' 

-- Yuh does eat leadpipes!!! 

-- Yuh does see the humour in a cartoon named "gumby and pokey"!!! 

-- Nuh fish doan taste like a fish from Baxter's road!! 

-- A bread and two is not 3 breads!!! 

-- De word "foop" is not a "sound word like "voop" and "woosh"!!! 

-- All de seasons uh de year start wid "C" - Congaline, Crop Over, Cricket and Christmas!!! 

-- Choice bread doan mean a good selection! 

-- Yuh does stupse when yuh hear a Tobagonian talking bout "their flying fish" 

-- A snakebite does only mek you drunk or tipsy - depending pun how much bites yuh have!!! 

-- Liming in front Cave Shepherd is an integral part a growin' up 

-- Yuh pun a "brasion"!! 

-- Even ef yuh only goin' tuh de beech, yuz be dress dung in bare hard gear 

-- Yuh doan got tuh be mystical tuh be gypsy 

-- Yuh just cyant guh town an' doan see someone yuh know 

-- When somebody call ya pun de phone and sa 'wait you still home?' or when da see ya pun de road and ask ya if ya still living 

-- Yuh don't have to be drinking to ask for a scotch 

-- Yuh don't have to be spiteful to be malicious 

-- Yuh call every stranger either boss man, partner or skipper 

-- It could barely get overcast and everybody coming school in a sweater 

-- Yuh call a man a 'Johnny' and de man name Kevin 

-- Asking 'fuh piece' cud mean :"gimme a turn", "mek some room for me" or "u cud as well gimme de whole ting coz i licrish" 

-- 'Banks' not only good for keeping ya money 

-- School work does got yuh "caffufle" 

-- When it too hard to spell some a de things ya does say: "wahever" or "gohblenya" 

-- You can "go in Kentucky" or go up Miami Beach without leaving the 
Country 

-- In moments of disbelief, yuh does say either 'Waaaaait?!' or 'fuh chu?!' 

-- Making 'sport' hardly ever has anything do wid sports 

-- If ya say ya 'did de dawg', it has nothing to do wid a canine 

-- You say "whappenin" even at a funeral 

-- You understand the phrase 'don't off-set me!' 

-- De word unmarley en got nutten tuh do wid Bob 

-- Yuh understand de word bozie 

-- De word juk could be a noun or a verb 

-- De word collins don mean somebody name 

-- The word BULL has endless meanings 

-- De word 'Oba' is synonymous wid track and field 

-- You distinguish between public and private owned transport by 'bus' and 'van'. 

-- Ya 'skin ya teeth' when you smile and 'put up ya face' when you frown 

-- You can 'go up St Lucy' and 'go down St Lucy' without changing direction 

-- Words like 'hard' and 'bad' have 30 different meanings 

-- The word liberty brings to mind 98.1 and not freedom 

-- The warehouse is always the warehouse no matter what they name it 

-- You speak of 'the van stand' and everyone knows what you're talking about, even though there are three of them! 

-- The beach refers to the South or West Coast and Bathsheba is anywhere on the East Coast 

-- Yuh know dat a 'hard wine' ain got nuttin tuh do wid liquor 

-- Hell is both de worse and the best place ever - you could look good as hell, dem fishcakes could be oily as hell, that garbage could smell stink as hell... 

-- You could be hot wid perspiration, vex with botheration and sick wid palpitations 

-- You know the license plates of all public transport, and you're on a first name basis with all de drivers 

-- Yuh does live 5 minutes from de beach and does get a sea bath 5 times a year, if you're lucky! 

-- Yuh don't have to be an athlete to know 'bout de 'runnings' 

-- Yuh know dat liming ain't got nuttin' to do with de orchard 

-- You tell the host "good night" when you first arrive at someone's home in the evening 

-- When someone sympathizes with you, you comment 'Yuh tink it easy?' 

-- You suck all the marrow from the chicken bone and chew the ice when you finish your drink 

-- Yuh might tink dat being a half idiot is worse than being a idiot 

-- Being described as real ignorant is a compliment 

-- You spell college with a 'k' and a 'j'! 

-- When somebody got talk fuh you, dem does never be talking to YOU 

-- "Hold" doan necessarily mean "to hold" cuz yuh cud "hol' nuff, nuff licks" in a fight 

-- Yuh could be anywhere in Bim and still be guin' down East Coast Rd." 

-- Yuh noah dat "pickin a lime" ain gots nuttin to do wid a visit to de orchard 

-- Yuh noah dat de Dipper is a person an not a constellation 

-- When you give directions like this. bubble up the street, Make a right at the mango tree. Go all the way down till you get to 3 rude boys liming on the block. You will see an esso. dont turn there, make a left. you will see a green house. That not it, go straight. Its the blue house in front of the Two dunk trees. You can' mis it. It has the white Toyota Camey with the plates S001 in front of it. 

-- You always find yourself standing next to plenty luggage and boxes at the airport - when you travel home, you bring an extra suitcase - going down, it has none of your clothes; returning, it has food. 

-- You hate to throw away empty containers as they might come in handy for pepper sauce or "green seasonings." 

-- You bring home food from a party 

-- At Christmas, you have to have "black cake"