[Ads-l] Heard, spoken by a white person

[Wilson Gray]

"Momma don't know, Daddy don't know, _don't *nobody* know_ what's going on!"

Said by a rural Floridian talking to one of his cousins, on FBI Files on
the Justice Network.

Been trying to find out whether white people used that syntactic structure
since 1973, when I asked Corky Feagin about it, at the Michigan LSA Summer
Institute.

-- 
-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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