Re: Grammar

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ivy_mike) wrote:
>Joni Rathbun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> 
>> About the only pronounciation on your list that is uniquely "black"
>> is acks.
>
>There is another one that is almost entirely black that I hear all the
>time.  Here in Atlanta, we have MANY black, so-called professional
>TV reporters and news anchors who do it.  They change "d" to "t" in
>words.  "Had" is "hat"..."hundred" is "hundret"..., etc.  
>
>I don't know if it's something to do with mouth structure, or just
>something they do to annoy whites, but it is VERY widespread.

It has nothing to do with being black, or with mouth structure.  It is
simply another dialectal pronunciation of English.  Yours is no more
correct than theirs.

lojbab
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