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Lancet Jades  
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 More options Oct 24 2012, 6:36 pm
Newsgroups: alt.slack, alt.usage.english, alt.usenet.kooks
From: "Lancet Jades" <ljade...@aioe.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:36:00 -0700
Subject: Re: Anachronism?
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"Arcadian Rises" <Arcadianri...@aol.com> wrote in message

news:24f28d37-86c9-4b5d-b4fb-d39f1429bea5@k20g2000vbj.googlegroups.com...

> I'm reading a non-fiction book about the 1900-1940 period in US
> history.
> Something that I found incongruous with l'air du temps: [some stories]
> "in the Birmingham Age-Herald. Laced with African-American dialect..."

> I would expect "Negro dialect" or "Black dialect" but "African-
> American" in the roaring twenties?

Hello there chaps!  This fella wants to know about negro dialect in the
1920s.  Can anybody help this fella out?

Thank you.


 
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