all growns up

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Sun Sep 26 16:58:54 UTC 2004


brief piece on Brandy's latest album, Afrodisiac, in the Oct. 2004
Instinct, p. 12:
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... But now, ten years later, Brandy's all growns up and coproducing
her records and singing about failed marriages and her kid.
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"all growns up" was new to me. here, possibly associated with AAVE.
but the raw google web count is 1,240, and a great many of them have no
visible association with black culture.  so, perhaps a quote used as a
formula, with jocular/affectionate overtones.  (Chad Capellman -- a
definitely european american type -- who's the managing editor of the
Media Center at the American Press Institute, exults about online news:
"We're all growns up!")

anyone know the source?

arnold



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