more generally blacks have a huge number of phonological mergers, most english words sound the same to them so they spend far more time than white developing slang for disambiguation
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Oh, okay. But that's much more unusual
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Oh I don't think it is though. Kids famously have different pronunciation difficulties (see how many speech pathologists there are), and similarly they have a wide range of spelling abilities. Based on my observation, I think spelling ability variation has a lot to do with
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differences in sound recognition
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