"gwine" : another two cents

[Jonathan Lighter]

The Net tells me that Memphis Minnie grew up near Algiers, La., and in northern Mississippi. This too suggests that "gwine" was once rather widespread, as formerly assumed.

  JL

  Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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I'm not sure that I understand you're getting at, Jon, but *Memphis
Minnie*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis+Minnie>=97
Date of Birth: 3 June 1897 =97 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 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=
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> 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.htmlspec=
ifies July 10, 1907, in Wadesboro, NC (Anson Co.).
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> JL
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