Git along, y'all

[Ellimist15 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 4024

Judging from everything I learned from watching "Red Dwarf" (a British sci-fi 
comedy), it's pronounced with a hard g. 

>From english2american.com:

Git n. Tricky one to define. What it doesn't mean is what The Waltons meant 
when they said it (as in "git outta here, John-Boy"). Git is technically an 
insult but has a twinge of jealousy to it. You'd call someone a git if they'd 
won the Readers' Digest Prize Draw, outsmarted you in a battle of wits or 
been named in Bill Gates' Last Will and Testament because of a spelling 
mistake. Like sod, it has a friendly tone to it. I'm told it derives from 
Arabic, where it describes a pregnant female camel, of all things. I'm also 
told that it is a contraction of the word "illegitimate" - you be the judge.

Ellie, also a native Texan

> What exactly is the technical definition of "git"
> This is not a Standard Texan
> Form of Speech, you understand...
> 
> --Amanda