John Jacob Thomas

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John Jacob Thomas, who published as J. J. Thomas (1841-1889) was a Trinidadian linguist and writer.^[1] He wrote a grammar of Trinidadian Creole (1869), but is best known for Froudacity (1889), a rebuttal of J. A. Froude's 1888 book The English in the West Indies.

Works

The theory and practice of Creole grammar, 1869
Froudacity : West Indian fables by James Anthony Froude, 1889

External links

Froudacity, full text and page images openly and freely available in the Digital Library of the Caribbean

References

↑ Faith Smith (2002). Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-2143-3. Retrieved 2 November 2012.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 34498949 LCCN: n85146112 ISNI: 0000 0000 2474 0207 BNF: cb12174679z

Persondata
Name	Thomas, John Jacob
Alternative names
Short description	Writer
Date of birth	1841
Place of birth
Date of death	1889
Place of death

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