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Im not a native black english speaker but grew up with them but it never entered my lect until a few months ago. My usage frequency keeps rising and i think i may lose most of my "gonna" soon haha. Im also very curious how "Fixing to" got reduced to the current form.

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Particularly americans/non scottish/english speakers?

So, I recently became aware that I was producing ejectives where one would normally find a plosive.

After a some google, my utterances were in line with what others [Wells, Graham, [Gordeeva](https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:HMJP9bECIOwJ:eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/2793/1/Gordeeva_and_Scobbie_WP19_2011_final.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjbEJsp545diLny3V3-51dVhOzD07xcXf8xdx74UbYZx6wuD5EGs8oALG-pvhzV-e6dH6GdVieVF_G95Mn7s4ab4eVWRY0QJxV2qai5nmAC1I7DXGKINLg-uwAz2tKGphBJsWcR&sig=AH

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