My ex in-laws were from E. AL with their grandparents from SC & one generation earlier, VA.  They often used terms of speech & words that were a complete mystery to me.   I'm born & bred in TX, not exactly Boston in speech patterns, but had never heard some of the strange (to me) words used by those folks.  They would say, "I was daresent" to go/do/whatever,  which I assumed was a form of "dared not" or another one was that something wasn't "approcrut" (appropriate).   I would become so interested in listening to their strange form of speaking, that I would lose track of the subject matter.  

Diane in TX

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