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Texan for Linguists; by Katy Jo Parker and Truman \u2018Tex\u2019 Beauregard; From Volume CLXI, Number 3, of Speculative Grammarian, April 2011 \u2014 This article is not about the descriptively interesting linguistic features of Texan dialects of English (such as incipient \u201cfixin\u2019\u201d, singular \u201cthey\u201d, modal stacking, second person plural \u201cy\u2019all\u201d, \u201cain\u2019t\u201d and \u201ccain\u2019t\u201d, \u201cbidness\u201d, \u201ccoke\u201d for \u201csoda\u201d, etc.) nor is it about any of the interesting Spanish-related linguistic phenomena in Texas (such as \u201cSpanglish\u201d, Chicano and Tejano English, code-switching, or Pachuco slang). (Read by Trey Jones.)