Coffee as a last name

[Benjamin Zimmer]

I assumed it was a Richard Pryor reference.


On Dec 9, 2007 9:54 AM, Dennis R. Preston <preston at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> This is joke, right? Or 'b---h' is some TM expression I don't know?
> Or the 'solidarity use of the word I take it to be?
> >
> >Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>
> >Donna Christian?! I know that b----h!
> >
> >-Wilson
> >
> >On Dec 8, 2007 6:11 AM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >>  What's the difference between vernacular dialect and dialect?
> >>
> >>  from   http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/christ01.html
> >>
> >>  Vernacular Dialects in U.S. Schools
> >>  Donna Christian, Center for Applied Linguistics

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