glossary

jumble: To mix things in a confoused way.
hotpot: A stew of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in the oven and in a dish with a lid.
gallimaufry: A kind of stew, made up of scraps of various kinds. Sea term, and probably meaning the galley scraps.
literacy: The ability to read and write: basic/adult literacy.
dialect: The form of a language used in part of a country or by a class of people with grammar, words and pronunciation that may be different from other forms of the same language.
creole: A language formed by a mixing of two others language, and used as the main language in the community in which it is spoken.