Heard on The Judges: intune = "overhear"; a comment on ahruh.

[Wilson Gray]

Fifty-ish, black,female speaker:

"I saw [the defendant] conversating with my ex-husband. So, I
approached them till I was close enough to _intune_ what they was
saying."


Very likely, a nonce-form invented on the spot. But, you never know. I
once thought the same about _conversate_.


I've had occasion to hear cases involving black farmers from Georgia
and some involving white farmers from Mississippi. All speakers were
r-ful / rhotic! Is ahruh-lessness dying out, even down home?

-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.
–Mark Twain

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