Trinidad and Tobagian
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Trinidad and Tobago + -ian.
Adjective
[edit]Trinidad and Tobagian
- Rare form of Trinidad and Tobagonian.
- 2007, David M. Addison, Sometime in Sorrento: A Sequel to An Italian Journey, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 314:
- Well, it's all right to have the confidence of a Trinidad and Tobagian tobogganist, I reflect, but then when you’ve not read many books other than green and whites for a while, it’s not surprising that I haven’t come across some arresting openings other than the famous, and I suspect apocryphal: “Damn!” said the duchess, “but someone’s done my lover in” - which is supposed to contain a heady mixture of sex, violence, exoticism, eroticism and racy language, and therefore irresistible to the reader.
- 2017, Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Devyani Sharma, editors, The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 764:
- Trinidad and Tobagian English, [pages] 394, 396
- 2022, Stuart Cosgrove, Hey America!: The Epic Story of Black Music and the White House, Polygon, →ISBN:
- He was also a music fan who, on leaving his post, bowed out to a song by the Trinidad and Tobagian calypso singer Lord Kitchener: ‘London Is The Place For Me’.