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Talkin and testifyin

Talkin and testifyin

by Geneva Smitherman

Black EnglishAmericanismsVariationLanguagesEnglish language
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Black EnglishAmericanismsVariationLanguagesEnglish languageAfrican Americans

Setting

United States

About the author

Geneva Smitherman

1940

Author

Geneva Smitherman

Pages

291

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

2

Language

English

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

ISBN

0395253551

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