Heard on Judge Joe Brown:

[Wilson Gray]

Spoken on today's Judge Joe by a black woman in the mid-twenties or so:

"Didn't no kid ride no bicycle into no house!"

-Wilson

On 7/10/07, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Possibly a hypercorrection modeled on "FebRuary" vs "Feb[y]uary"?
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> m a m
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> On 7/9/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Used by a forty-ish, black, female plaintiff from Chicago:
> >
> > "Jan_ju_ary" in place of "Jan_u_ary"
> >
> > I've heard this alternate pronunciation all of my life, so it's
> > probably not news to the pros on site, but, WTH?
> >
> > Used by the thirty-ish, black, female defendant also from Chicago:
> >
> > "Gangway" in the sense of "the space between two buildings that allows
> > access to the rear of one of the buildings."
> >
> > -Wilson
> >
> >
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