Didn't as [dIdInt]

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've heard this only in very emphatic speech.  And not often.
>

I've heard it in ordinary speech all the time for all of my life.
Fortunately for me, it's no more a pet peeve than "ain't" and is less
interesting than the multi-negative is. OTOH, the replacement of ordinary
"di-d-int" et sim. by "di-?-int" et sim. "bugs my head." At one time, the
only black person that I've ever met who used glo?al stop is the same guy
who pronounces "street" as "skreek." Unless you try to call it to his
attention, when he then says "street" and denies *vehemently* that "skreek"
is his normal pronunciation.

IAC, then, his use of glo?al stop was merely part of his charm, like his
use of "skreek," until the use of it by *other* people became de rigueur in
hip-hop and rap and then spread into colloquial speech. Now, it's a pet
peeve.

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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