Date:  Sun, 13 Mar 1994 20:41:36 -0600

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: Actors & Accent



> not being familiar with all the scholarship. Have any of you who are

> speakers or students of VBE or similar southern lects ever seen or heard

> an actual attestation of nominal "us"? I f you have, are the only

> exampes you know from Gullah speakers (or Carribean creoles), or is it more

> widespread? In the U.S.?



Yes, I've heard it a few times in taped interviews with non-Gullah speakers.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)