[Ads-l] " Saint Louis linguo [sic]"*

[James A. Landau]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:05:34 Zone-0500 Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> scribbled: 

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from Facebook:

"I was tell my girl about us doing that as kids."

*A phrase that occurs in the rap, _St. Louis Nigga_.
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I suggest the possibility that the rapper in _St. Louis N-wuhd_ edited "telling" to "tell" to fit the meter.

- Jim Landau

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