Lexicon Valley #4: Jumpin' Salty in The O

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🗓️ 27 February 2012

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the vernacular wrapped in a dialect inside a language that some call Ebonics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	Is there such a thing as African-American English?
0:35.0	African-American English is actually called eubonics.
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