Ebonics
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, also known as Black English, is a nonstandard dialect spoken in many homes in the inner cities of America. This nonstandard language is often looked upon as low-class or lazy talk. This is not the case, however. Due to consistencies found in the dialect, there seems to be an order. It has bee ....
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.... park, which is laid out seemingly without any
definite plan, and which you are allowed to walk everywhere according
to your own fancy without having a fear a stern keeper enforcing rigorous
regulations. (MacNeil 141)
This freedom has created the English we speak today. Although a little behind the times, Oxford changes the rules as to what is correct English due to what is being spoken. In English Belongs to Everybody, Robert MacNeil, feels that English has prospered and grown because ....
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