Heard on Jerry Springer: European-American _BIN + PrP

[Wilson Gray]

Thirty-ish, Southern-white male speaker confronting his girlfriend:

"I _BIN cheatin' on_ you!"


I've heard this structure used by white speakers about as often as
I've heard the structure, "BIN _told_ you," as opposed to "BIN
_tellin'_ you," from black speakers: rarely.

Further deponent sayeth not.

--
-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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