[Ads-l] Do y'all know about this?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jan 24 03:45:36 UTC 2015


Part 1 Hear Former Slaves Speak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VTFkyDrH3M

You can hear the speaker say,

marsta, mississ, chillun, gwine, cotched, full (as a verb), wear (someone)
out = "give (someone) a beating," etc.

Otherwise, IMO, the speaker could be any random black speaker of 2015
talking.

-- 
-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

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org



More information about the Ads-l mailing list