Heard on The Judges II (_liftes_)

[Brenda Lester]

I heard a young woman say "parentses" for "parents."
  my friends and i have an ongoing joke about ingredientses
  :/

  bl


"Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at MST.EDU> wrote:
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Or a blend (lifts + raises)?

Gerald Cohen

Original message from Wilson Gray, April 03, 2008:

> Mid-thirty-ish black man describing a fight:
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> "He _liftes_ [lI at ftIz] me up an' drops me on the ground."
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> I would have expected "lif's." Perhaps it's another example of attempting to rise to a higher register in a formal setting.
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