Re: fingers

--- Joseph Bridwell <darkmoonman@...> wrote:

> Having grown up in the Deep South (piedmont region
> of South Carolina),
> I heard it all my life until I moved West. My
> parents used the word,
> and their parents (my grandmother was born on 01 Jan
> 1900 and died on
> 01 Jan. 1980).
>
Well, if it is originally a Scotish borrowing from
Dutch, I would expect it to be most common in those
areas of the country with the highest emmigration of
Scots, ie the South.  My family all uses the word.  We
are all Southerners, have been for as long as 400
years on some braches of the family.  There is a high
concentration of Scotish blood in the family and also
several Dutch lines.  I don't think the useage in
theis country is anything new, but I do think it may
have been a regional usage until not so long ago.
Southern usages have been gaining prestige.

Adam

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