Heard on Maury: "for" > [fo]

[Wilson Gray]

Seventeen-year-old, black male speaker:

"What is I'm gon' go to the birthday party _fo'_?"


"_Fo'_ has long been traditional in eye-dialect representations of BE,
but this is the first time that I've heard a literal [fo] as opposed
to [f^] or, in Saint Louis, [fO].

-Wilson
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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.
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-Mark Twain

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