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 1. modren metathesis (3)



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Date:  Sat, 25 Dec 1993 14:43:58 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET>

Subject: Re: modren metathesis



Anyone who used to listen, even occasionally, to Black radio stations before

the Motown Sound pushed older traditions aside would have heard the Black

Draught (a "tonic") ads that made use of regional variation in AAVE. The ads

began with someone saying about three sentences. Then the ad-announcer would

ask the auditors to guess where the speaker was from. Then after the spiel

extolling the virtues of Black Draught (which had a much longer life than

Hadacol), the announcer would reveal where the speaker was from. I found it

interesting that I often could place the speakers, in part by comparing their

phonology with that of Southern whites.       DMLance