http://blog.oup.com/2008/01/big-up/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2008/01/big-up/comment-page-1/#comment-124863 Joseph T. Farquharson Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:50:12 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2008/01/big-up/#comment-124863 Interestingly, Jamaicans seem to prefer inflecting the first element of the phrasal verb and not the entire constituent. So we get "bigged up" and "bigging up". I have not come across any Jamaican examples of "big-upping" in spoken or written language. I will be on the look out. Interestingly, Jamaicans seem to prefer inflecting the first element of the phrasal verb and not the entire constituent. So we get “bigged up” and “bigging up”. I have not come across any Jamaican examples of “big-upping” in spoken or written language. I will be on the look out.

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