英和和英

発音

• (General American) enPR: ē-bŏnʹĭks, ĭ-, ĕ-, IPA^(key): /iˈbɑnɪks/, /ɪ̈-/, /ɛ-/
• 韻: -ɒnɪks
• ハイフネーション: Ebon‧ics

固有名詞

Ebonics (uncountable)

1. African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
   • 1999, Pullum, Geoffrey K., “African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes”, in Wheeler, Rebecca S., editor, The Workings of Language, →ISBN, page 40:

     Buried among the jargon of the announcement was a mention of a name for AAVE, suggested by a Black scholar in 1975^[sic] but never adopted by linguists: Ebonics. That word, concocted from ebony (a color term from the name of a dark-colored wood) and phonics (the name of a method for teaching reading), was destined to attach to the board as if chiseled into a block of granite and hung round their necks.