hi all,
i am true southerner from LA and MS. i commonly use the phrase "fixin to". i know that it is like preparing to as fix can mean "to prepare" as well as to "repare".
recently while talking to a canadian friend he told me that he loves some of the archaic expressions that are still found in the south that have fallen out of common use elsewhere and he sited this as an example.
i know that my grandmother used "holp me" for help me until the day she died. it is a form that was preserved in the ozarks if not other places and was at one time used commonly in England.
can anyone help me find some examples of "fixing" used as prepare in English in the days gone by. maybe some literature. i would appreciate it.
thanks and please leave the negative comments off.
i am true southerner from LA and MS. i commonly use the phrase "fixin to". i know that it is like preparing to as fix can mean "to prepare" as well as to "repare".
recently while talking to a canadian friend he told me that he loves some of the archaic expressions that are still found in the south that have fallen out of common use elsewhere and he sited this as an example.
i know that my grandmother used "holp me" for help me until the day she died. it is a form that was preserved in the ozarks if not other places and was at one time used commonly in England.
can anyone help me find some examples of "fixing" used as prepare in English in the days gone by. maybe some literature. i would appreciate it.
thanks and please leave the negative comments off.