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- ↑ Mt. Alvernia & Beyond, Mt. Alvernia High School Alumni Association. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
- ↑ Prof. Evelyn O'Callaghan, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, University of the West Indies. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
