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>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 15 16:17:33 2014 No.4665746 [View] File: 54 KB, 640x560, question frogs.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Does 'Thomas Pynchon' even exist?

Anonymous Mon Jan 6 17:29:12 2014 No.4445807 [View]
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Sup /lit/. Any linguists here? I was just wondering where the use of 'what' instead of 'that' in English dialects comes from. Example:

>I don't trust people what don't look you in the eye

instead of

>I don't trust people that don't look you in the eye

Anyone know which dialects use this substitution and when it originated?

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