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3 months ago mollusque said:

a. The name of some one else assumed by the author of a work (compare pseudonym); b. different words for the same thing within a language (compare polyonymy).

The second meaning was adopted in the Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage (Oxford University Press 1996, p. xliii). As many Caribbean islands are independent nations, when they have divergent spellings and vocabulary, no one usage can be deemed standard. For example: eggplant is antrover (Antigua, Barbuda), aubergine (Antigua, Grenada, St. Vincent, Trinidad), baigan (Guyana, Trinidad), balagé (Montserrat), balangene (Dominica, Grenada), balanger (St. Vincent), balanjay (Barbados, Guyana, St. Vincent), banja (Montserrat, St. Vincent), bélanjenn, bélanjin (Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia), bolanger, boulanger (Barbados, Guyana, Montserrat, St. Vincent, US Virgin Islands), bringal (Trinidad), brown-jolly (Jamaica), chuber (Antigua, St. Kitts), egg-fruit (Caribbean Creole), garden-egg (Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Turks & Caicos), melongene (Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad), melonger (British Virgin Islands, St. Kitts), truber (Nevis, St. Kitts) and volanjay (Barbados).

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