Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Southern American English

Delete or Move or Split the article - Many of the features listed at Southern American English are only used by uneducated speakers and so I find offensive to be discussed as part of southern American English. An example is the use of done in place of already. That is only done by the uneducated southerners. If stuff like that is to be discussed anywhere, then it should be discussed at Southern white vernacular English.
 * Keep. Southern American English is a broad category in its own right, and deserves a page that lists all its facets&mdash;warts and all. As for concern that it this is only the provinence of "uneducated speakers". . . I'm pretty educated myself, but that doesn't stop me from saying "y'all" and "grocery" every now and again. I say: let's hang on to this article, and have no more of this move/delete business.Notcarlos 30 June 2005 19:55 (UTC)
 * Keep. Uvaduck 30 June 2005 19:00 (UTC)
 * Keep "uneducated" speakers are part of languages, dialects etc as well. -- AlexR 18:42, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Haven't we been through this before? AJD 20:28, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sayeth 20:34, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. --[[User:JonMoore|&mdash;Jo nMo ore  20:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)]] 02:19, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Valid topic. If the Talk:Southern American English request for move made with exactly the same reason failed, then you can't expect people to delete the content!  Morwen - Talk 13:19, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Although it may "offend" you that some people that create the Southern lexicon are uneducated, they create the dialect nonetheless and you need to get off your high horse. Sandwip 0:57, 23 Jun 2005 (CDT)
 * Keep. I'm fixin' to move to Florida, and I find resources like this invaluable for helping me learn to fit in. This way I can use my "native" Brooklyn/Jewish accent when I'm up north, and talk like a native Southerner when I'm down in FL. Swirsky 14:50, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Why would anyone say to delete this. Redwolf24 23:27, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Southern culture is the engine of American culture.  All truly original American music forms were born in the South.  The great novelists of the South are America's pride.  In its heart, America is a Southerner.  Let the obsession with Southern culture continue.  I love to read all the examples of word usage that differ from other regions.  Sure, some of them are just examples of incorrect speech, but that can be handled by the Wikipedia edits just as unkind entries on the Ebonics page can be handled.  By the way, Southerners call the burner on the stove an "eye."  I just learned the other day that that's a southern thing.  (Insert rebel yell here)
 * The above unsinged vote was the fourth edit by 66.169.7.80 at 23:26, June 25, 2005. -JCarriker June 30, 2005 08:26 (UTC)
 * Keep'. Bryce
 * Keep'. Language, particularly English, is an evolving thing, and excluding a dialect because it "violates" the rules is denying that langauge grows and changes. Nis81 June 29, 2005 15:45 (UTC)
 * Move to Southern White Vernacular English.
 * Keep. This is the most absurd Vfd, I've ever seen. -JCarriker June 30, 2005 08:03 (UTC)
 * Move to Southern United States English. The current title is misleading. Lapsed Pacifist 30 June 2005 08:09 (UTC)
 * Keep. DO'&#1048;eil July 1, 2005 06:27 (UTC)
 * Keep: This is insane. From a linguistics point of view, this is the standard term, and if it offends the nominator, then he can go beat up all the linguistics departments in the US.  We record what is, not what someone would like it to be. Geogre 3 July 2005 13:52 (UTC)