The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48479   Message #728762
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
12-Jun-02 - 07:34 PM
Thread Name: Minstrel Shows, Part Two
Subject: RE: Minstrel Shows, Part Two
Just wondered what the thought is on this bit of dialect.
Aunt Dinah, a black cook, is speaking. Excerpts:
"I may say dat. Good, plain common cookin', Jinny'll do- make a good pone o'bread- bile her taters far,- ...." "Ta'nt no fault o' hem. An, Mas'r George, you doesn't know...." "And so ye telled Tom, did ye? O, Lor! what young uns will be up ter!"