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by Kristine Maitland, August 23, 2007
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My own heritage is British Guyanese: my mother left Guyana just after it gained independence. If there is one thing I know about Guyana is that the people there have a word for everything. I had to call my mother and get the linguistics lesson. If your background is Black and Portuguese there’s a word for it: "santantone" (which actually refers to San Antonio – a slave ship stopover point).