Heard on Springer: _baby daddy_, etc. (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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I heard on one of the Judges lately a woman refer to a "nasty daddy",
which was explained to the judge to be a somewhat older man who is
hitting on girls too young for his self.  Strong connotation of
creepiness.

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> Twenty-ish white woman, Mary, of ordinary Northern speech, to her
> sister, Jane, who is marrying Mary;s former boyfriend:
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> "It's in the code! Part of the family code! You don't mess with a
> sister's boyfriend *or* her _baby daddy_! How's my son going to feel,
> when he's old enough to know that his father is married to his _aunt
> ('ahnt')_?!"
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> Twenty-ish white male of ordinary Northern speech:
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> "I was living in the house of my _aunt ('ant')_.
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> FWIW, IME, the distribution of [ant] vs. [Ant] among white speakers
> and among black speakers seems to be random. The larger difference,
> IMO. is that BE-speakers, IME, are more likely to use the diminutive
> "auntie" [an.ti] vs. [An.ti] (> [e(I}n.ti]). I mark the syllable
> boundary because the pronunciation is usually "ON-tee," vs. "AN-tee"
> (> "ANE-tee).
>
> Late-twenty-ish, black male of ordinary, Northern-BE speech:
>
> "I'm a playa! I juggles! I juggles many women! I'm a _jugular_!" (Very
> likely a hypercorrection, IMO.)
>
> Twenty-ish, urban-Southern BE-speaker from Montgomery, AL:
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> "My gi[r]lfriend..."
>
> with a really *serious* [r], like "gurrrfrin." My father, a
> rural-Southern BE-speaker from the greater-Birmingham area who never
> met a pre-consonantal ahra that he couldn't delete, must be spinning
> in his grave!
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> -Wilson
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> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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