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To: Sully- who wrote (12452)7/20/2005 11:00:04 PM
From: CYBERKEN  Respond to of 35834
 
<<What makes this a farce, as well as a tragedy, is that what is called "black English" is a dialect that originated among white people in parts of Britain centuries ago. That dialect was transferred across the Atlantic when people in those parts of Britain settled in the American South.>>

Wonder if dayed stop ax-in all da wrong kweshtins if it was WIDELY (and more accurately) KNOWN as "Ante-Bellum White English"?

Seems worth a try...