EBONICS

Slangy dialect

• Controversial 1990s tongue

• Controversial dialect

• Controversial language

• Controversial language of the 1990s

• Controversial school subject

• Controversial talk

• Dialect in 1990s news

• Language in which yo is a pronoun

• Linguistics term coined in 1973, and made controversial in 1996

• Much-debated school subject

• Nonstandard English

• Subject of a 1990s language controversy

• To linguists, it's African American Vernacular English

• Vernacular that came into prominence in 1996

• A nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people