Hi I'm Italian and I'd love to be able to speak Ebonics (American Black English). I know almost all the features of this dialect but there's something that ain't clear to me:
- I know that in Ebonics words like "for", "sure" and "before" are pronounced "fou", "shou" and "bi'fou", but why I've always heard saying "more" like "mo" (just without the "r", like English people do). Shouldn't it be "mou" (with the final u)?
- How do they pronounce "au"? For example, in words like "down", "town" and "now" they pronounce the "a" like the "a" in "cat", but why do they pronounce "abaat" for "about" and "aa" for "out" and "our"? Is there a rule in these cases?
2007-10-23
05:30:45
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