dropping -ed in adjectives

[Paul Johnston]

My students, whether hip hop or country fans or not, from Michigan, do this all the time.

Paul Johnston
On May 16, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Amy West wrote:

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> A follow-up . . .
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> One of my students who consistently uses "bias" for "biased" is a young
> female white Massachusetts native and a country music fan. In checking
> out one of her sources here are lyrics from a Toby Keith song wherein he
> uses "prejudice" where SE would use "prejudiced":
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> Breaks his heart seein' foreign cars
>
> filled with fuel that isn't ours
>
> and wearin' cotton we didn't grow....
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> He ain't prejudice.
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> He's just -- made in America.
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> Downes, Lawrence. "Toby Keith's American Dream." /New York Times/ 10
> Oct. 2011: A22(L). /Gale Biography In Context/. Web. 16 May 2012.
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> So . . . I'm beginning to think that I'm just noticing a dialectal
> variant wherein the -ed is being dropped from adjectives. Maybe it's
> being picked up from Southern and AAVE dialects via country music and
> hip-hop?
>
> Sorry if this is a) basic and b) obvious.
>
> ---Amy West
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> (And the irony is that she wrote her paper on Southern dialect in
> country music. . .) (And the idea of New England country music fans is
> just a difficult one for me to wrap my preconceptions around.)
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