Heard on Springer: caucasian BIN
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat May 28 00:40:17 UTC 2011
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Darla Wells <lethe9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hear it a lot here in Louisiana, but usually it is "bin doin' "----"I bin
> doin' that," or "I ain't bin doin' that," even more often.
Does this _bin_ receive the strongest stress? I.e., the speaker says,
"I BIN doin' that!"
and not just,
"I bin doin' that."
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-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.
-Mark Twain
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