It’s a collection that is likely to find older Guyanese reminiscing fondly on words they, or their elders, had once used. This creative touch helps to make the collection more than a mere dictionary of Guyanese words. Spiced with anecdotes and illustrations, Bascom uses his story-telling skills and his talent as an illustrator to explain the meaning behind words like ‘fat fowl’ and ‘coona-moonoo’. So reads the blurb on a new and aptly named book called ‘101 WORDS THAT TELL YOU’RE GUYANESE,’ by novelist, artist, and four-time winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature Harold Bascom.
