interdesperse

interdesperse
 v.— «Jamaicans speak English, but it’s so interdespersed with slang and colloquialisms that it often hard to decipher.» —“Regiment’s school project is a class act” by Johnny Caldwell in Jamaica Belfast Today (Ireland) July 7, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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