I suppose the cocktail circuit is a French innovation.
As for proper English, my introduction to broad English came care of D. H. Lawrence. I had heard that Ebonics had its source in non-English speaking people who worked at slave camps. I had no idea that some of that was broad English, for example pronouncing the word "ask" as if it were an implement of wood cutting. Such metatheses are more common that I realized.
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Date: 2/5/13 16:13 (UTC)As for proper English, my introduction to broad English came care of D. H. Lawrence. I had heard that Ebonics had its source in non-English speaking people who worked at slave camps. I had no idea that some of that was broad English, for example pronouncing the word "ask" as if it were an implement of wood cutting. Such metatheses are more common that I realized.