My linguistics class was the most interesting class I've ever taken, bar none.
As the only black student in the class, I did my paper on Black English Dialect, AKA Ebonics. I got a B+ (because I went 10 pages over the limit).. lol.
It is definitely interesting to learn about how we talk geographically.
My dad who is from Southern Maryland calls all purses "pockabooks" too. My mom, from Alabama, calls them "pockabooks" and "purses". Purses are what she takes to work or church. Pocketbooks are what she takes to other places.
I carry a purse.
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Easy. You root against Duke, for that program and its head coach are -
and we don't think we're in any way exaggerating here - the epitome of all that is evil.
--Seth Emerson, The Albany Herald
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