Datapoint Bahamian Creole/Plural marking generally optional : for nouns with human referents

Variety: Bahamian Creole
Feature: Plural marking generally optional : for nouns with human referents
Value: B - feature is neither pervasive nor extremely rare
Informants: Stephanie Hackert

Examples

Example 1378:
That when the Duke first come here, and he gone over to talk with R- President Roosevelt to see that he get to 'cruit some of the boys from here to go over there to work the Work Food Administration.
That's when [Edward] the Duke [of Windsor] first came here, and he went over to talk to President Roosevelt to see if he could recruit some of the boys from here to go over there to work for the War Food Administration.
Example 1379:
And they was paying money, and the Bahamas government say don't pay he boy - he people that kind of money.
And they were paying money, and the Bahamas government told them not to pay their boys – their people that kind of money.