from me born
English
Prepositional phrase
- (Jamaican) Since the time I was born; during my entire life.
- 1976, Vera D. Rubin, Lambros Comitas, Ganja in Jamaica: The Effects of Marijuana Use (page 126)
- “Me social from me born.” Questioned as to whether ganja induces meditation, another responded, “Me meditate without me use it.”
- Quoted in 2000, Huon Wardle, An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica (page 92)
- I don't read, I never been to a school for reading: no, I never write a letter from me born neither do I read one […]
- 2006, Colin Channer, Iron Balloons
- But from me born, me never hear 'bout no girl wha' fall in love with her little brother.
- 1976, Vera D. Rubin, Lambros Comitas, Ganja in Jamaica: The Effects of Marijuana Use (page 126)
References
- Oxford English Dictionary (2020).
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