pig as college slang(was "di?nt" (with glottal stop)

[Baker, John]

        Not just black Southern country talk.  My parents, in southern Kentucky, used "triflin'" to refer to an unreliable person.  Many years later, I was surprised to find the word again, in the same sense, in contemporary songs by black singers.

John Baker


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Subject: Re: pig as college slang(was "di?nt" (with glottal stop)


I agree. A lot of "modern" black slang is just a recycled or
exaggerated (WRT pronunciation) version of old-time black Southern
country talk. Of course, now that I've made this claim, I can't think
of any examples to back it up. Well, thangs be that way. Oh! That's an
example right there!

-Wilson Gray

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