greaser

Mullins, Bill Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Thu Jul 28 05:36:06 UTC 2005


>So, that the speaker was white and that "gwine" hasn't always been
>regarded as a peculiarity of Negro dialect is a distinct possibility.
>"Veddy interesting," as they used to say on Laugh-In.

If you throw "gwine" at the ProQuest Historical Newspapers, the first cite
is negro dialect.  But the second is from a (presumably) white riverboat
captain.



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