Associative plurals

[Tahir Wood]

>>> <john at research.haifa.ac.il> 4/5/2011 7:33 am >>>
I've heard Black Americans use a reduced form of 'and them' (pronounced
schwa-n-schwa-m) suffixed to names with an associative-type meaning
(Jackie-en-em='Jackie and the people with her'). I don't know how common this
is.


This is very common in colloquial South African English, although perhaps not as contracted as is described above.
Tahir

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