OT--dialects ("fixin' to")

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No: HPFGUIDX 9128

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kimberly " <moongirlk at y...> wrote:
> --- 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?)
  Even 
> worse, I say 'used to could'.  It's even worse because I have a 
> totally bland midwestern accent, so it all sounds funny.
> 

I'm from Vermont, and the "Yankee" accent is almost dead, except for 
older people from rural areas. Everyone else talks in Standard 
American TV Anchorperson English.

 BTW, could you use "used to could" in a sentence? I'm curious how 
it's used as I've only heard it in a Jeff Foxworthy routine.

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