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Thread #97273   Message #1914054
Posted By: NormanD
19-Dec-06 - 04:35 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Were You There (spiritual)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Were You There (spiritual)
The various journals of folklore, etc. round my unlettered parts only cover the various and splendid dialects of the UK, none of which include the Gwine subculture.

Narrow-minded squeamish censors? That's a good one. How about "political correctness gone mad" as an alternative cliché?

As Lenny Bruce once said, in his take on Negro Spirituals: "I'm gwine to heaben. And de first t'ing I'm a-gonna do is find out what a "gwine" is".