Different dialects, same error

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

Is existential 'it' native to your speech, DInIs, or is this an AAVE borrowing for you?

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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Dennis R. Preston
Sent: Sat 9/4/2004 3:13 PM
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Subject:      Re: Different dialects, same error
 
Of course since it ain't nobody (leastways nobody I ever knowed)
named "Windy," I never took it to be nothing but "Wendy," even in the
face of the pragmatic evidence of "stormy eyes."