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<font size=3>At 11:01 AM 7/29/2004, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>It reminds me of the term
"wiggers" which comes from a contraction of white<br>
and niggers which I have heard used by white teenage boys who do their
best<br>
to imitate blacks in terms of hip hop, etc. so perhaps this is a form
of<br>
slang formation which is current but with which I am not an expert
on.</blockquote><br>
It is a term (in its r-less version, Wigga) which is used by Eminem,
whose English shows some influences of AAVE (I attended yesterday a
thesis defence by a student who did an analysis of some AAVE features in
his English as opposed to that of Tupac Shakur, his mentor). He
considers himself one, specifically a 'Wigga with a Black
Accent'.<br><br>
Geoff</font></body>
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