'sup?

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 05:02 PM 10/19/2004, you wrote:
>On Oct 19, 2004, at 3:43 PM, William Stone wrote:
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>>Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>Poster:       William Stone <W-Stone at NEIU.EDU>
>>Subject:      Re: 'sup?
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>>In the northwest suburbs of Chicago, 'sup' is very much a Caucasian
>>teen greeting.  African-American teens all seem to use a flapped
>>'whatup'
>
>FWIW, on an episode of Law & Order, a black adult refers to a group of
>black teenagers as a group of "[hw^D^ps]," where "D" is the SPE symbol
>for flapped "t." Law & Order is set in the City, but who knows where
>the writers get their BE slang from from?
>
>-Wilson Gray

With [hw] or my plain-vanilla [w]?  What city is L&O set in?  (Shows my
crime show ignorance!)