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- a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States
How To Use Black English Vernacular In A Sentence
- Having encountered two variants of American English between the ages of six and twelve Black English Vernacular -- I will kick your rear end if you call BEV by a name that rhymes with "sonics" -- and a nonblack version of Southern American English, I recognized that Zipf's law considerably simplified the task of acquiring new vocabulary. Archive 2006-12-01