What is the difference between creole and Creole?
A. Lowercase ‘creole’ is a common noun (and also adjective) used to refer to the language type in general (whether as a sociohistorical reference to its genesis or as a typological term), and uppercase Creole is a proper noun, used as the name of a specific language; thus, “In the study of creole languages ” or “This is a characteristic feature of many creoles” but “In Haitian Creole ” or “In Haiti, Creole is .” Note that uppercase Creole also refers to people, so French Creoles in Trinidad are Trinidadians of mainly French descent (although the term has erroneously been extended to other European Creoles as well; in a similar vein, ‘coolie’ has also moved away from its original meaning, that of ‘labourer’ and been misapplied to Indians, sometimes Chinese, and their descendants around the world). Some Indo-West Indians use the term Creole to refer to persons of African descent. Creole as a term for people refers to their ethnic origins. In most territories, the term is not used as a co
