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Datapoint Earlier African American Vernacular English/Was for conditional were
Variety:
Earlier African American Vernacular English
Feature:
Was for conditional were
Value:
B - feature is neither pervasive nor extremely rare
Informants:
Alexander Kautzsch
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Examples
Example 1290:
But, uh, otherwise if you was a good, good person they wouldn' sell you.
Source:
Bailey et al. (eds.) 1991
: 32
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