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<pre wrap="">Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
> does this phenomenon look (well, sound) familiar to anybody here?
Aside from Popeye? The sailor with the patented 'twisker punch,' the
fighting 'fisks' and a weakness for 'brunecks'? But where did <b
class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>his<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
style come from...?
(1931 occurrence of the last two on a magazine cover:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ethimbletheatre/comicstrip.html">http://home.earthlink.net/~thimbletheatre/comicstrip.html</a>)
I'm not saying the AAVE feature is necessarily historically related, but
it's still an interesting aspect of the Popeye idiolect...
Joel A. Shaver
English Language & Linguistics
University of Glasgow</pre>
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