Nigger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nigger is a pejorative term and common ethnic slur against black people, and is English slang. In denoting “black person”, nigger originated as a variant of the Spanish and Portuguese noun negro ...
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Etymology is the study of the history of words. Find out how 'black' entered the English language, from what source, and how its form and meaning have changed over time ... Black in Old and Middle English...
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languagestudy.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_origin_of_the_word_black
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The words nitty-gritty, jazz, and yam are all words that have entered mainstream English but which originated in African-American dialects. Much modern American slang, such as "throwback" for sports jerseys and "Benjamins" for hundred dollar bills also originate in Black Vernacular.
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web.cn.edu/kwheeler/black_vernacular.html
web.cn.edu/kwheeler/black_vernacular.html
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TTZ Forums > TTZ Unplugged > The Lobby > Did the word "funky" originate in Black English? ... It only gained common usage in Black English 80 years ago, meaning sweaty and smelly. But just as “bad” came to mean “good” in the African-American community, funky, too, by the late 1930s, had its meaning mirrored as...
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www.thetechzone.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1763...
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"Black English" can refer to two different language varieties: (1) the type of English used by people of African and Caribbean descent who live in Britain; (2) the language of African-Americans (negroes) in the United States.
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www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/mark/resource/creole.htm
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This page is the result of a project I did for my LIN 404T class. It is dedicated to the study of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). ... AAVE is a form of American English spoken primarily by African Americans. Although an AAVE speaker's dialect may exhibit regional variation, there are still many salient features.
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bryan.myweb.uga.edu/AAVE/
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Five will get you ten he'll perk up and say, "Why that's black English; I'd know it anywhere!" But it t'aint. It is as white of an English as you can get. ... The bottom line is so-called black English is nonsense and attempted coverup of government school corruption and capitulation to mediocrity. It's not simply a matter...
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www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/95/Black...
www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/95/Black-English.htm
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Language is divided into two areas, the standard language verses everything else we speak like Creole, Ebonics, Gullah, Pidgin, AAVE, Black English Vernacular, Irish American Vernacular English, English into Irish, Louisiana Creole, Creole, Patois, and Patwa, Dialect and more.
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www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/Home_Linguistics.html
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But if black English is not deficient, why do so many people believe it is? Because black Americans have a history of powerlessness. And every society I know worldwide looks down on the speech of the powerless. We learn this attitude unconsciously when we learn the million and one rules and beliefs of our society.
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