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CTL-W-0207 · Work · 1970s

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Rickford & Rickford, Spoken Soul (Wiley 2000), ch. 6, quoting Geneva Smitherman's Black Talk (fetched in full): 'bad: Good, excellent, great, fine.' Stored meaning 'good, excellent (inversion)' matches.

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Rickford & Rickford, Spoken Soul (Wiley 2000), ch. 6, quoting Geneva Smitherman's Black Talk (fetched in full): 'bad: Good, excellent, great, fine.' Stored meaning 'good, excellent (inversion)' matches.

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Rickford & Rickford, Spoken Soul (Wiley 2000), ch. 6, quoting Geneva Smitherman's Black Talk (fetched in full): 'bad: Good, excellent, great, fine.' Stored meaning 'good, excellent (inversion)' matches.

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