Each territory has its own peculiarities of pronunciation, vocabulary, and style. A few examples follow:

Guyana

Guyanese produce the first vowel in words such as dirty, thirty, and Thursday further back in the mouth to sound like the vowel in door. Like Jamaica, Antigua and St. Kitts, Guyana has the [a] sound in words like job/jab, dog/ dag, got/gat.

Guyanese, like Jamaicans, use mek to link clauses establishing cause and result:

Guyana and Trinidad also have more names for Indian dress, food, festivals and other cultural items than most other Caribbean territories. Words such as daalpuri, masala and sari are well known in Trinidadian and Guyanese vocabularies.

There are a number of English words used in Guyana, the meanings of which are totally unfamiliar to people outside of the country. Note how the words uplift and transport are used in the following examples: