And my journalist informant tells me he changed <texed> in a story to <texted> this week and the author took the <t> out again. She was quite emphatic that this is the verb and this is the way it is wrote…
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> On 9/08/2016, at 9:07 PM, Dave Sayers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> In the interests of gathering a corpus of anecdata... I heard 'texes' again yesterday, loud and clear. It was on a train on the outskirts of south London, from a girl of about 17 or so talking to her friend about how she was going to adjust her phone contract. She said "I don't use my texes; I just talk to my friends on Whatsapp and Facebook". This again suggested to me 'tex' as a the singular noun form, though I didn't actually hear also say 'tex' (after all she doesn't send or receive any texes!).
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>> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 04:38:52 +0000
>> From: "Troike, Rudolph C - (rtroike)" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: She text me
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>> In much of the work on AAVE, the occurrence of forms like 'desez' for 'desks' has been taken as diagnostic of {des} as the internalized base form.
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>> --Rudy
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>> Rudy Troike
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>> University of Arizona
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>> Tucson, Arizona USA
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>> From: Patrick, Peter L <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, March 4, 2016 3:49 AM
>> Subject: Re: She text me
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>> In the context of AAVE – but probably not general Sthn Brit Eng – it may be interesting to note that upwardly mobile speakers of Standard Jamaican English have long been noted as adding a final schwa to words ending in clusters – Kathryn Shields (Brodber) has written about this - though as far as I know there has not been a variationist study of this. This obviously creates the possibility for both single and double hypercorrect plural -əz suffixation.
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>> Peter L Patrick
>> Dept. of Language and Linguistics
>> University of Essex
>> Colchester
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