The First Ten Words to Oxford’s New
African American English Dictionary Revealed
– Barack Obama Friend is Serving as
Project’s Editor
Gateway Pundit,
by
Cullen Linebarger
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
6/4/2023 6:48:30 AM
A new dictionary featuring “African-American” words will be coming out in two years and a report has revealed the first 10 words in the new book.
As NBC News reported Wednesday, Oxford University Press announced last June they planned to publish the “Oxford Dictionary of African American English.”
The New York Times published the first 10 words and their definitions in late May.
Here they are: bussin (adjective and participle): 1. Especially describing food: tasty, delicious. Also more generally: impressive, excellent. 2. Describing a party, event, etc.: busy, crowded, lively. (Variant forms: bussing, bussin’.)
Reply 1 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 6/4/2023 6:56:57 AM (No. 1484242)
I would have thought "aks" would be there, as in "I aks yo if yo got mah bread."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
plomke 6/4/2023 7:12:16 AM (No. 1484252)
Ebonics.
With a new foreign born communist muslim homosexual twist...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 6/4/2023 7:14:10 AM (No. 1484253)
The dumbing down of America. Same schools, same opportunities, special treatment, affirmative action and they still can’t speak proper english.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rather Read 6/4/2023 7:23:11 AM (No. 1484256)
I'm southern. A couple of those words (chitlins and ring shout) are not new to me at all.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 6/4/2023 7:32:07 AM (No. 1484262)
Modern English is an amalgamation of Germanic, Norse, Roman, French, Latin, Spanish, Gaelic, Celtic, First Nation verbiage accumulated over thousands of years. And Gates could only come up with a 100 words from Africans. Is this funded by the Government? If so what has it cost us?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lazyman 6/4/2023 7:41:40 AM (No. 1484266)
Most thought we would bring all Americans up to a higher educational level. Instead we are all heading to a lower level.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Trapper 6/4/2023 8:35:05 AM (No. 1484284)
You know where this is going, right? Just as some Blacks make up their own fantasy "histories" to claim credit for stuff they didn't do, e.g., Cleopatra was Black or Beethoven was Black or the entire "1619" fairy tale, we are about to be served a newly made up Black Etymology to lay claim to certain words and their histories as uniquely and originally Black words. Check all of it. For example, the Smithsonian on their web site state that the cake walk was "directly inspired by a specific European couple dance called the Grand March." I bet Gates won't include THAT in his fake dictionary.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/who-takes-cake-history-cakewalk
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/4/2023 8:38:34 AM (No. 1484286)
Turning us all into the little old lady from 'Airplane', "I speak ebonics." Not going to happen in my house!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Analyn 6/4/2023 8:39:59 AM (No. 1484287)
Wonder if" know whum sayn" is in there
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chance_232 6/4/2023 8:48:23 AM (No. 1484290)
Was corpseman in there??
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Newtsche 6/4/2023 8:51:54 AM (No. 1484291)
Too many blacks shun mainstream knowledge (it's true), I'll shun this marginal info.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/4/2023 8:52:28 AM (No. 1484292)
Sorry for the 2nd post, but is "dis" in there? As in "He dis me!" No disrespect, but that's a biggie.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Venturer 6/4/2023 9:03:13 AM (No. 1484296)
He got da pressure= Meaning he suffers from high blood pressure.
Alcoleptic.= meaning he is an epileptic who is also a drunk.
Vegetarian Hospital= Veterans Hospital
He got da sugar= Diabetes
All terms frequently used and heard by EMTs
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 6/4/2023 9:04:18 AM (No. 1484298)
#1, thought the correct spelling was ax
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/4/2023 9:07:11 AM (No. 1484301)
They left out dindonuffin?
Seriously, this is insane as most new things are these days. Years ago there was an attempt to make Ebonics into a language to be taught in schools. It failed then, even in California. Here we go again.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
felixcat 6/4/2023 9:29:14 AM (No. 1484313)
Is there a section for made up pseudo French sounding stupid names like LeBron? La'Shanita, etc?
Sho nuff - loser people no matter how you spell it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Encore 6/4/2023 9:36:51 AM (No. 1484319)
Can’t leave out ‘gimme’. That’s their life blood.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 6/4/2023 9:48:38 AM (No. 1484325)
A little off topic, but last week I saw an article online about a black girl named ‘Oforitsenere‘. For real.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 6/4/2023 9:58:27 AM (No. 1484335)
10 words? The whole dictionary only needs a few more words that we can't print here.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/4/2023 10:10:31 AM (No. 1484343)
Ah, ghettospeak. They will give it a nicer name: Ebonics. If you work in a ghetto, you probably need it just to communicate. Otherwise, it has little value. Just because the activists are pushing it doesn't mean I should embrace it.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 6/4/2023 10:17:11 AM (No. 1484347)
When he was living in D.C. a friend called blacks' 'Monaco' because that's how you instruct a garbage truck to back up... personally I can't wait to see their definition of the n word.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 6/4/2023 10:18:06 AM (No. 1484350)
Damn spell check. 'Monback.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Axeman 6/4/2023 10:35:28 AM (No. 1484369)
The urban dictionary has been online for a long time. All the slang words are there.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
wildcat1 6/4/2023 11:01:55 AM (No. 1484391)
Well, since 0bama was born in Kenya........
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Namma 6/4/2023 11:02:22 AM (No. 1484392)
don't for get the word Ba-room instead of bedroom. Ever listen to the oldies. Half of the words are not completely pronounced. I use give the excuse that the song being recorded was only 2 minutes long. Had to get all the words in. little did I know!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
pixelero 6/4/2023 11:04:00 AM (No. 1484393)
More stupid. Pile on and make ‘em dumber and more belligerent. Hard to believe that’s even possible, but another BO “wingman,” givin’ it the ol’ non-college (or at this point “college”) try. Why not just learn English? I’d say “idiots,” but “evil conspirators,” is prob better.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
fysammy 6/4/2023 11:12:29 AM (No. 1484396)
"Chidrin"- Young kids without Fathers
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
janjan 6/4/2023 11:27:59 AM (No. 1484407)
Go ahead and use African American ‘words’ in a job interview and see how that goes. I wouldn’t hire you.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/4/2023 11:28:26 AM (No. 1484408)
I really don't care...every ethic group has it's slang...so make a dictionary or word source...it doesn't matter...I speak good ole English...and co-incidentally five foreign languages....because I was born in Europe and that was a must because WE never knew what whacko country was going to invade next...it was an insurance policy....so is this exercise by obama an effort to make his people speak with confidence or what?..."ya hear what I'm saying"....will it include the dread "N" word?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 6/4/2023 11:38:10 AM (No. 1484420)
#1, I think that's "axe". LOL!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
czechlist 6/4/2023 11:40:14 AM (No. 1484421)
I believe it was George Carlin who did a routine about lazy speech. to wit - You can place a proper English speaking person with an Irishman, Cockney or b lack and within a few hours they will no longer be speaking proper English.
I frequent a lounge where people will be speaking politely but if someone comes in using the f word before long almost everyone will be spouting it.
entropy, chaos
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/4/2023 11:41:38 AM (No. 1484424)
We call it “ghetto”. The more they speak “ghetto” the more marginalized they will be. Obie probably thinks that is swell. A ghetto-speaking bloc he can control.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Msquared112 6/4/2023 11:44:13 AM (No. 1484430)
I'm all for them having their own dictionary. And their own country.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
ldb51 6/4/2023 11:59:00 AM (No. 1484440)
#9: Also heard that pronounced "nome sane"...
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/4/2023 12:14:49 PM (No. 1484459)
Two personal anecdotes, both of which happened in the 90’s…
I was in the checkout line at Walmart and there was a black woman with a little girl in tow ahead of me. The girl took off running and the mother yelled, “Amnesia, you come back here!”
My sister in law was in a fast food place and had just placed her order with a black woman behind the counter. The woman then asked her, “Innydingadink?” (You’ll figure it out.)
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/4/2023 12:46:37 PM (No. 1484481)
Certainly a Black Slang section would be most interesting!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
HRJUNIOR 6/4/2023 1:35:32 PM (No. 1484504)
The comments are better than the article!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Blooming 6/4/2023 2:04:19 PM (No. 1484518)
Whatever happened to the kings English. . .I'd rather learn Italian!
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
rytwng 6/4/2023 2:06:22 PM (No. 1484521)
Does bath house Barry speak Kenyanese?
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
little guy 6/4/2023 2:08:14 PM (No. 1484523)
This is more insidious than it looks as it is trying to elevate slang and local lingo or colloquialisms to the level of a language --- which it isn't.
You could waste your time creating a similar list of buzz words used by teenagers, gamblers, cowboys, or any set of workers. That is not a language!
What's really going on here is an attempt to make black slang legit ... so you can't use poor English as a reason not to hire someone! Thus opening YOU up to a discrimination lawsuit.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/4/2023 2:21:34 PM (No. 1484530)
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the resident racist at Harvard and has a permanent gig on PBS when they need to present any pro-black or anti-white topic. This idea is stupid, this is America, not African-America. If y'all want your own country, that can be arranged. Contributions toward transportation costs will be quickly raised. In the meantime, I will use these ten examples of jive talk as often as I use the preferred pronouns of the sexually confused idiots who don't like what they have inside their pants.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Catherine 6/4/2023 2:25:10 PM (No. 1484532)
My favorite: Whi peepo
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/4/2023 2:27:56 PM (No. 1484533)
#15, that's because dindonuffin is a complete sentence. That will no doubt be included in Gates' next book along with Iaintdadaddy which will be entitled "African-American Sayings."
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/4/2023 2:32:48 PM (No. 1484535)
The names are often hilarous. Military veterans will appreciate one girls' name, Latrina.
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An acquaintance used to delight in telling story about a black child whose name was pronounced "femm ah lee" and spelled "female" because that was what was printed on her hospital wrist band at birth.
Apocryful? or not?
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Connor 6/4/2023 6:13:48 PM (No. 1484600)
I don't care. I find their language and mannerisms repulsive.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
NeonVortex 6/4/2023 7:39:11 PM (No. 1484628)
The Queen's English.
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Never thought I would see the day when we saw a special dictionary devoted to Ebonic type language. What other language has their own special dictionary?
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/4/2023 10:04:48 PM (No. 1484696)
Ten words?
TEN?
From what I see and hear, the Urban Thug Culture is working in the same direction as was described in '1984', where the whole language was boiled down to ONE word.
I will not write it here, but the 'initials' are 'M-F'.
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