Alternation between /gr/ and /dr/ in inlaut in BE

[Wilson Gray]

It's been said that Dred Scott's real name was "_Great_ Scott" and
that "_Dred_ Scott" resulted from an eye-phonetic, negro-dialect,
ebonics-based respelling.

The speaker is the late-great Rick James.

"I never just did things just to do them. Come on! I mean, what am I
going to do? Jusss', just all of a "sudden just jump up and [g]rind my
feet in somebody's couch like it's, like it's, you know, something to
"do? Come on! I've got a little more sense then that!

...

"Yeah, I remember [dZ]rinding my feet in Eddie's couch."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM8NrGCviN4

1:18min.-1:49min.

Note! If you choose to listen to the entire excerpt, be aware that
this is a clip from the no-punches-pulled Chappelle's Show and not
meant for the faint of ear or for the P.C. of heart.

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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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