Americandialect.com

[Mullins, Bill]

>From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Wilson Gray
>Sent: Tue 3/29/2005 9:43 PM
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Americandialect.com
>
> From www.axorask.com:
>
>"Why do many Blacks say 'finna, skrimps, ax, skraight,' and 'fixin'
>to'"?
>
>-Wilson Gray

Bubba Gump said "srimps" instead of shrimp or skrimp (and that seems to be pretty accurate for the Bayou la Batre region, from what I've seen).  I've heard "shtraight" much more than "skraight" (and not only from blacks, but it seems more common there than in caucasian, although I heard one of the announcers on the Lady Vols game on ESPN use it earlier tonight).  And this white boy says "fixin' to" all the time.