dominica

This post is inspired by a guy I work with, a mister Liam Walsh. Mr Walsh was born in the west indies to the english Mr Walsh Senior, and his west indian wife. Now apart from Liam’s very black eyes, the rest of him is pretty white, which is all the more interesting as his brother is dark-skinned.

The history of the West Indies is a bit like Liam - mixed up ;) Named the West Indies after Columbus mistook the island for asia, most of the islands were at some point colonised by almost every country in europe. The spoken languages over the islands include, danish, dutch, french and spanish. The island where Liam spent 7 years of his early life is Dominica, which in latin means ‘Sunday’, the day of its discovery by Columbus. Dominicans speak a form of pigdun french, and in the same way as a jamacian speaks english, a real french person wouldn’t really understand it.

So what happens when a white, french-rapping, dyspraxic, west-indian moves to london?
A strong landan accent that you can’t kick.