Sound-change in BE

[Wilson Gray]

When I was a child, I never heard the sound commonly represented in
eye-dialect as "aow" used by any black speaker. When I was a young
man, I noticed that my female contemporaries had begun to use "aow."
Now, I hear "aow" used by black men. Cf., e.g. Dave Chappelle, as one
egregious example.

-Wilson

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