Dear Editor,

On Monday — National Heroes’ Day — we celebrated our heroes. I would like to hail our people and culture that make us special and, of course, make this country tick.

Where else in the world can you go and people ‘join’ a bank instead of having an account with that particular bank, or ‘tun’ police. Where would you find ‘pudden’, ‘sintin’, and ‘my man deh, mi caan memba im name but I know who mi a talk’.

And if you are a ‘forina, nuh ask direction from some people cause it will be just round di caana’.

We also throw ‘pardna’ instead of being part of a partner plan. And we eat ‘swims’ instead of ‘shrimp’, and we make payments with a ‘caad’ and not a ‘card’.

Oh, I didn’t ‘memba fi tell yu bout mi new kaar, mi seh it chriss like a biscuit’.

If we are sick, we go to the ‘dacta’, who might send yu to the ‘aspital’. ‘A tru ting mi a talk. Wi good bad.’

And then there are those noisy ones who go to the racetrack to see the ‘aas’ dem run. There is much more, but this is just a sample to tell you how Jamaican people ‘noice’. Nuh true?

‘Walk good,’ and remember to tell your granny howdy.

Peter Brown

Portmore, St Catherine