> You be good for Grandma, now, and if you do / ??*are I'll buy you an > ice-cream cone. > > "Are" sounds pedantic if not just plain wrong. > Anybody concur? Sorry, I find this good, in my midwestern (great lakes) dialect, if that's what you're getting at. I'm ignorant of AAVE. Actually, I find "DO" wrong, not even pedantic Dave