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This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
| Ginger Baker, Musician (1939) |
| Bernard Baruch, Businessman (1870) |
| John Cotton Dana, Author (1856) |
| John Deacon, Musician (1951) |
| Mohamed El-Erian, Businessman (1958) |
| Malcolm Forbes, Publisher (1917) |
| Peter Gallagher, Actor (1955) |
| Henry Hampton, Activist (1940) |
| Jill St. John, Actress (1940) |
| Robert G. Allen, Politician (1963) |
| Hugo Gernsback, Inventor (1967) |


