[Ads-l] "done VERB-ed" < "_have_ done VERB-ed"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Clai Rice <cxr1086 at louisiana.edu> wrote:

> Or was he intending to mark it as usual in both black and white speech?


He was intending to mark it as usual in both black and white speech. Shands
is citing Bartlett as an argument from authority in support of Shands's own
assertion that the phenomenon is cross-racial in Mississippi.

Notice also the proscription by Allen, who was not concerned at all with
the speech-habits of "colored people."
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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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