“Whitey” goes to the ghetto: A personal chronicle of a communication experience with black youths

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“…The particular form of the gerundial construction quoted earlier happens to be a northern form; the corresponding southern Irish form would be "and we not touching him." 12 One of our respondents from Mount St. Patrick in Admaston Township (Renfrew County, Ontario) systematically reversed standard Canadian verb morphology, using -s forms for plural subjects and forms without inflection for third person singular subjects. This pattern is characteristic of the English of a relatively small area of south-western Ireland (Henry,p.…”

“…As far as spelling is concerned, the editors make it clear that neither inherited model is wrong in Canada, and that mixing between categories "may well constitute the 'Canadian style'" (Burton et al 1987:7). 12 But if the FEAC survey made its organizing editors "feel closer to our quarry than we did [before beginning], and closer than any other hunters we've heard of" (Burton et al 1987:176), they know that their style book does not corner the beast with anything like the assurance of that enjoyed by their colleagues on similar expeditions abroad.…”

“…Mary"s after telling us about it, meaning that Mary has recently finished telling us, are exotic to most Canadians, though not to all. 12 One construction that occurs in standard Canadian syntax and also in some parts of the United States, perhaps all, is the ever exclamation, in constructions like Does John ever drive fast! and Is John ever stupid!…”

“…11 Other words that we are investigating as originating in Cape Breton are associated with the lives of miners and their work. 12 For example, tar paper boots is a disparaging term to describe the boots miners used to wear before safety regulations required boots with a steel toecap (Smith 1995). These boots with thin uppers offered some protection against water, but none at all from falling objects.…”

“…In other words, standard English grammar varies little from country to country, and where there are nonstandard grammatical constructions in CE, they are usually not Canadian innovations but carryovers from regional dialects in the British Isles.-Eds 12. The standard present perfect tense consists of HAVE + past participle: I have called.…”