"AAVE" (the abbrev. itself)

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Tue Oct 5 18:46:43 UTC 2004


I was surprised, when looking over the evidence for _AAVE_
(the abbreviation itself, that is), that the earliest example
in _American Speech_ appears only in 1993. I know that various
other terms were used in different periods but I hadn't thought
that _AAVE_ was quite so new.

Can anyone provide an antedating?

Jesse Sheidlower
OED



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