When the chorus in Dirty Money’s ‘Hello Good Morning’ raps: “And everybody know who the truth be”, is be the familiar Ebonics habitual be2 or the “equative copula” be3 proposed by Alim (2001, 2004)? Ralph Fasold, emeritus professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, US, examines this question in detail for his report ‘Do it be be3 […]