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didn't have no

Parf of speech: Phrase, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

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Speaker: Everybody got married on a Monday- a Tuesday or- or Wednesday or Thursday. Nobody got married- Interviewer: Oh, why? Speaker: Why? Because we didn't have no electricity and we had no place to keep our food, eh? Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: So it- everything- like, usually every- weddings were on a Tuesday because they would, ah, kill the chicken or turkey or whatever they had. Turkey was very occasional.
"didn't have any"
And, ah, I had a dress, a beautiful dress. My mother-in-law, his mom, ah, made it over for me. Like, she- she thought it was, ah- it was a- it didn't have no sequins on it and she wanted it flashy so she went ahead and put some sequins on it which made it really pretty, you-know? Ah, really different than- than today.
"didn't have any"