Oh, I forgot that.  My grandparents would say "I dassn't" meaning I don't
dare or something similar.  I don't remember any "r" sound in their
pronunciation.

Mildred "Mickey" Fournier
1730 SE County Rd 252
Lake City, FL 32025-1703

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Subject: Speech patterns

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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