blaccent
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blaccent (plural blaccents)
- (US) An accent characteristic of African-Americans (black Americans).
- 2003 January 5, Eric Stewart, “the people's kitchen”, in misc.activism.progressive (Usenet):
- He's black, but doesn't have a trace of a blaccent.
- 2004 February 19, Ben Zimmer, “Is the slogan grammatical?”, in sci.lang (Usenet):
- Timberlake has long sought to overcome his whiteness to perfect a "blaccent", as the kids call it these days, and the McDonald's ad campaign explicitly relies on a hiphop idiom.
- 2005 November 15, “Eli” of Michigan, “Lord of The Dance”, The Life of a Swordfish, at swordfish22.spaces.live.com
- She spoke with a very thick blaccent...as she screamed "C'mon B!, C'mon B! C'mon B!" (she was quite persistent with this phrase, and used the actual word) "I betta neva see yo A out eating sub sammiches eva again!".
- 2006 February 8, “Drew” of Philadelphia, “The moral's I'm immortal ”, Trapper Juan, at trapperjuan.blogspot.com
- Rothlisberger...speaks with a blaccent, which in reality is not that uncommon. The problem is his inconsistency. Sometimes, he lays it on thicker than J. Will haggling at a swap meet
- 2009, John McWhorter quoted on, The World:
- The sad thing is that for many people, the blaccent connotes lack of intelligence.
- 2016 December 4, Jennifer Schuessler, quoting Edward McClelland, “‘How to Speak Midwestern,’ a Heartland Dialect Guide”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- (Mr. McClelland notes the existence of various Midwestern “blaccents,” though he doesn’t explore them.)
- 2020 July 21, John McWhorter, “The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Black earnings decrease to the extent that one has a perceptible “blaccent.”
- 2022 February 8, “What a ‘blaccent’ is, and why it's wrong”, in CNN:
- The term is making headlines this week after comedian, actress and rapper Awkwafina addressed criticism that she’s used a “blaccent,” or Black accent, and other elements of African American language and mannerisms during her career.