"gwine" : another two cents

[Wilson Gray]

I'm not sure that I understand you're getting at, Jon, but *Memphis
Minnie*<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&start=1&oi=answers&q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis+Minnie>—
Date of Birth: 3 June 1897 — was a "gwine" speaker. You can hear
snatches
of her idiolect at the iTunes store, Tower Records, etc.

-Wilson

On 3/18/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> While listening serendipitously to Blind Boy Fuller's 1940 recording of
> "Worn Out Engine Blues," I noticed that he utters an unmistakable / gwaIn /
> right here :
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>   I'm gwine take a trip over to Chiny, Great God,
>   See if I can find my gal over there.
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>   Though some doubt appears to exist regarding Fuller's date of birth,
> this site http://facstaff.unca.edu/sinclair/piedmontblues/fuller.htmlspecifies July 10, 1907, in Wadesboro, NC (Anson Co.).
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>   JL
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