FWIW

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Seán Fitzpatrick
<grendel.jjf at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> My son was graduated from high school a few weeks ago.  While loitering in
> the halls during his last days, he overheard a teacher, an attendance
> warden, describe to another a student whose first name was “La—a”,
> pronounced Ladasha.

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

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