More overcorrection

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've heard "ballard" several times from white Southerners of varying ages.

JL

Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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"Ballards," title of a 1962 album by the Texas bluesman, Charles
"Good-Time Charlie" Brown.

This particular overcorrection is used in speech as well as in
writing. I once advised a friend of mine, likewise a black native of
Texas, that the word is [bael at d], not [bael at rd]. I should have kept
my advice to myself. Some people you just can't talk to.

-Wilson Gray


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