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The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of…

— John McWhorter

Ebonics is me. I'm the king of slang, hands down.

— E-40

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways,…

— William Labov

The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three…

— Ishmael Beah

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

— Maurice Druon

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

— Henry Sweet

Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that…

— James Wan

I just love dialects; they're really fun.

— Cory Michael Smith

English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

— Susie Dent

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but…

— William Labov

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

— Liev Schreiber

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and…

— Walt Whitman