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  • proper noun Alternative capitalization of Ebonics

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Examples

  • And again -- to oversimplify all the books mentioned (and not mentioned) as preachy, stereotypical and filled with ebonics, is truly offensive ...

    Debating Black Books Roger Sutton 2009

  • Your knowledge of Star Wars ebonics is unparalled, and is truely an inspiration to my Star Wars Galaxies roleplay.

    Scar Friends Luncheon Circle 2005

  • AAVE aka ebonics aks Black English was spoken neither by

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

  • It's because english is a dying language, to be replaced rather quickly by LOLspeak, txtspk, and what is controversially called ebonics in the US (to be in turn eventually replaced with simplified internet compatible mandarin chinese pictograms), and some of us wish to hasten things.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2010

  • To think I used to call ebonics the "new black death."

    Latest Articles Townhall.com 2010

  • While others were scoffing at the notion of ebonics, I was lapping up inner city slang: that beautiful, musical, profane prose.

    Slashdot: Book Reviews 2009

  • Our society even went so far in the desire for accommodation to consider teaching "ebonics" in the schools, so that children would not feel culturally out of place.

    On Negro dialect 2010

  • She even used some "ebonics," got a little ghetto and threw a "shout out" to third graders in Alaska after she exclaimed that the education system for our children needed an overhaul - Go figure!

    Yvonne R. Davis: Sarah Palin: America's Affirmative Action Candidate 2008

  • She sounds like she studied "ebonics" at Wellesly.

    Good Bill, Bad Hillary 2007

  • Over time, my struggle came when all of my African American friends made fun of the way I tried to emulate their "ebonics" because it sounded strange with my accent.

    Toning Down My Professorial Tone: Or, Trying Not to be Perceived as an Intellectual Snob Anxious Black Woman 2007

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