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#* Pull, Geoffrey K. (ed. Wheeler, Rebecca S.) ''The Workings of Language'', ch. 3: "African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes", p. 40: "Buried among the jargon of the announcement was a mention of a name for AAVE, suggested by a Black scholar in 1975 [sic] but never adopted by linguists: Ebonics. That word, concocted from ''ebony'' (a color term from the name of a dark-colored wood) and ''phonics'' (the name of a method for teaching reading), was destined to attach to the board as if chiseled into a block of granite and hung round their necks." |
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See also: ebonics
English
Etymology
Lua error in Module:affix/templates at line 38: The |lang= parameter is not used by this template. Place the language code in parameter 1 instead.. Ebonics was coined by Robert L. Williams in 1973 and first used in his book Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks.
Proper noun
Ebonics
- African American Vernacular English.
- Pull, Geoffrey K. (ed. Wheeler, Rebecca S.) The Workings of Language, ch. 3: "African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes", p. 40: "Buried among the jargon of the announcement was a mention of a name for AAVE, suggested by a Black scholar in 1975 [sic] but never adopted by linguists: Ebonics. That word, concocted from ebony (a color term from the name of a dark-colored wood) and phonics (the name of a method for teaching reading), was destined to attach to the board as if chiseled into a block of granite and hung round their necks."