different between english vs blackspeak

English

Alternative forms

• English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. It is speculated to relate either to people from England introducing the technique for billiards or bowling in the United States, or perhaps from a particular person with the surname English.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???.?l??/

Noun

english (uncountable)

1. Spinning or rotary motion given to a ball around the vertical axis, as in billiards or bowling.

   You can't hit it directly, but maybe if you give it some english.

   • 2005, S. Moran, Bronx Boy: Book One of The Zombie Island Trilogy (page 179)

     There was a magical way of putting English on the dice to result in a six.

2. (figuratively) An unusual or unexpected interpretation of a text or idea, a spin, a nuance.

Synonyms

• (spinning motion): side, spin, sidespin

Translations

See also

• body English

References

Anagrams

• Hingles, shingle

English

Etymology

black +? -speak

Noun

blackspeak (uncountable)

1. The dialect of English spoken by people of sub-Saharan African ancestry living stateside.
   • 1995, Robert Dawidoff, "The Kind of Person You Have to Sound Like to Sing 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'", in Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush, editors, Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism, Stanford University Press, ?ISBN, page 302,

     It sounds odd to us now, but contemporary sources... suggest how the archaic blackspeak that we associate with blackface performers had some of the aura of the later white appropriations of black speech.

   • 2002, Joe S. Harrington, Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll, Hal Leonard, ?ISBN, page 64,

     Jordan's records were the first time many whites encountered the nuances of hip urban blackspeak.

   • 2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, ?ISBN, page 35,

     Like Hawk, he moved easily in and out of blackspeak as it suited him.

     "They is a couple of approaches to the whore business," he said.

Synonyms

• African American Vernacular English, AAVE
• Ebonics