OT--dialects ("fixin' to")

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 9099

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> karob_7 at y... wrote:

> 
> Yup. The usage "fixin' to" and the double modal (might ought, might
> should) are the only dialect usages on the increase, by the way. 
Other
> Texas peculiarities are dying out.
> 
> --Amanda, font of useless trivia (is that redundant?)

Then *that* must be where I got it.  I worked really hard at not 
picking up things like 'y'all' and 'fixin' to' when I spent 3.5 years 
in college in TX, but somehow I picked up 'might should'.  Rats!  Even 
worse, I say 'used to could'.  It's even worse because I have a 
totally bland midwestern accent, so it all sounds funny.

kimberly, contemplating washing my mouth out with rum punch.