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As the preface accurately says, "This dictionary stands as the most thorough dictionary of Creole" (p. i). This statement is verifiable in the studious way in which the dictionary has been compiled: with a nomenclature of 30,000 headwords, 26,000 subentries, details of the meaning and sentence-length examples of 35,000 multi-word or idiomatic expressions, word microstructures, and a succinct semantic analysis that distinguishes between homonyms and polysemes. Coming at a time when there are no extensive monolingual dictionaries designed for native speakers of Haitian Creole, this dictionary is an authoritative and authentic compilation of Creole lexical resources - a first major step toward the "preparation of monolingual dictionaries with specifically targeted readerships to be used in Haiti" (i). This would be a laudable effort that will give Creole speakers better understanding of the linguistic (research-based) system...