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fixin'. That's another one that gets me :)

The worst is when we're at home with the baby at my parents house. I ask my mother where something is, and she says: "Over Yonder".... What? where is yonder. That is very descriptive.

Jason
 
The one I never noticed or thought about until I moved up here with the yankees for the 1st time in 96 was "might could".

So I was somewhat surprised when the wonderfully flamboyant director I was assisting off broadway put his hand on my arm to stop me from talking mid sentence and said "Did you just say 'might could'"? At which point the rehearsal room burst into laughter.

"Might could" you know as in "We're fixin' to go to dinner, but we might could see
if we can get the reservation changed, that is if y'all wanna go with us."
 
"Whereas standard English makes no distinction aside from context between the singular and plural forms of the second person past tense forms of the verb "to be," using "you were" for both, Appalachian English has "you was" and "y'all were," making for a more balanced paradigm with "was" used for the singular past tense in all cases, and "were" used for the plural." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_English)

That should clear everything up :thumbsup: :grin:
 
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