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

[Jonathan Lighter]

When Bartlett means "Negroes," he writes "Negroes."

(Actually he writes "negroes," but it was a long time ago.)

JL

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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."
> --
> -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
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