05-03-2005, 12:00 PM
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News came out of the blue
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Canadian "eh", Brooklyn "hey", hiphop "yo"
In the flurry of posts about Canadian eh, I neglected to link to John McWhorter's post from a year ago about English final yo. John makes a connection to George Herriman's use of final hey in his Krazy Kat strips,...
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langu...es/002119.html
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