Exploring our Creoleness must be done in a thought as complex as Creoleness itself […]

Steve Dolan is an assistant manager and fish culturist at the Salmon River Hatchery in Altmar, outside Syracuse, where Lake Ontario’s king salmon are raised.

[…] there has grown up a real need for all sorts of executives, whether hirers and firers, okayers and yes-men, surrogates and designates, grand, exalted rubber-stampers, masters of the mimeographed memo, advisers to advisers […]

In the early Middle Ages, 'mother tongue' was largely 'a pejorative term to describe the unlearned language of women and children' (Haugen 1991: 82). This reflected the low status of women in society and contrasted with Latin, the more prestigious 'father tongue' on the continent.