ebonics
Collocations
3ADJ.
adopted
VERB + EBONICS
time, travel, tunes
EBONICS + NOUN
it's, word
Definitions
name
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE).
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.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Ebonics.
But with exotic dancers, binge-drinking, tooth-ripping, show tunes, time travel, ebonics and murder, it's an approach not usually seen onstage.
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Synonyms
noun — a nonstandard form of American English characteristically sp
- aave
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2Buried 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 c
WiktionaryBut with exotic dancers, binge-drinking, tooth-ripping, show tunes, time travel, ebonics and murder, it's an approach not usually seen onstage.
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