Antedating of "Black English"

[Fred Shapiro]

Black English (OED 1969)

1968 in _Language_ 45: 6, 8 (1969)  PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY
OF AMERICA ... 26-27 JULY, 1968 ... Ralph W. Fasold (Center for Applied
Linguistics): The form _be_ in Black English.

Fred Shapiro


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