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Aha! A few words from my ex-classes.
Finado: I'm finado dat rite now.
Finago: Ahm finago they rite now.
Dengo Beano: (There isn't going to be--) Dengo Beano tess today, is they Misser Wio?
Badiss: I go to the Badiss chuch ever Sunday.
Enjoy:
Art
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> From: Peggy Williams <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2004/09/14 Tue PM 07:29:45 EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Crepidula
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> On Sep 14, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Andy Rindsberg wrote:
>
> Both
> dialects are peppered with a few Shakespearean relicts like 'fain',
> pronounced 'fin': 'I'm fin to (do something)', meaning 'I want to/intend
> to'.
>
> At least in my neck of the woods this saying is actually "I'm fixing
> to", pronounced I'm fixin to"
>
> You think you have lots of accents? Come to Florida, the melting pot of
> America. My grandparents are from CT and WV and I'm third generation
> here. When I was 16 we had an Argentine exchange student and took her
> to a meeting of orange growers in Ocala. She couldn't understand a word
> of the old Cracker talk, but I had no problems.
>
> Peggy
>
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