Examples of Ebonics in a Sentence
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At an early age I was taught to speak very properly around white people and to only use Ebonics with Black people.
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Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Since utterances were only weakly correlated with income and education then perhaps the shorter utterance lengths is a characteristic of their race – perhaps pointing towards the controversial language of Ebonics [26].
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2013
Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Since utterances were only weakly correlated with income and education then perhaps the shorter utterance lengths is a characteristic of their race – perhaps pointing towards the controversial language of Ebonics [26].
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2013
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“Ebonics.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ebonics. Accessed 17 Sep. 2024.
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