Heard on VH1: 'n'em

[Wilson Gray]

Twenty-ish, black, male speaker:

"I don't want to be taking off my bandanna and letting all of America
_'n'em_ see my buckwheats!"


"All of America _'n'em_"?! That strikes me as a bit extreme. Who's
left, once that you've said "_all_ of America"?

BTW: "buckwheats" = hyper-curly, stereotypically-Negroid hair, after
"Buckwheat," the colored character on The Little Rascals, and Eddie
Murphy's SNL parody thereof.

-Wilson
--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-----
 -Sam'l Clemens

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org