[J. Miller]

I have a master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology, and I live in the south. The phenomenon you have noticed is a dialect. It is not that those individuals cannot produce the sounds correctly, it is that they choose to produce those sounds as their peers do. It is no different than how some people say ‘ain’t’ instead or ‘aren’t’ or ‘jumpin’ instead of ‘jumping’. There are different dialects all of our country which vary by race, socio-economic background, and location. One dialect is not better or worse than another; they are just different. Also, I know many black people who change how they speak, depending on the listener they are attempting to communicate with. They may ‘talk white’ at work, saying ‘ask’. Then they go home to their family and friends and say ‘axe’.

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Name : J. Miller, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 33, City : Columbia, State : SC, Country : United States, Occupation : Speech Language Pathologist, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,