Targete and Urciolo compiled this Creole to English dictionary against a lexicographic gap they describe in the introduction, where a single full dictionary existed and was already a decade old. Every noun entry carries its definite article, a, la, an or lan with the variant nan, since a learner who does not know which one attaches cannot use the word. Terms whose English counterparts share an origin are starred for quick recognition. Example sentences are translated, and many are taken from eighteen works of Creole literature, including Franketienne's Dezafi and Pelin-Tet, Morisseau-Leroy's Antigone and Georges Sylvain's Cric? Crac?, each keyed to a source code. The compilers set out the choices that incomplete standardisation forces on them: which spelling among several variants becomes the headword, when a French phrase written as one Creole word should be joined, and how to label the many words used attributively. Port-au-Prince usage is the standard, with some northern and Jeremie terms added.