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Old 06-14-2011, 12:02 AM   #121
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FYI -- you're rarely likely to actually hear "fix-ING" but "fixin' " instead. There's also "Fixins" meaning the condiments and lettuce, tomato slices (sorry, no beetroot), etc. at fast food restaurants where you add those things to the burger yourself.
Actually, it's more like fi'n. As in, "Y'all fi'n t'go?" pronounced more or less as one word, "Yalfindago?" Whether written or spoken, however, the above is incomprehensible to other English readers/speakers, so compromises must be made in transliterating dialect. The first time a Southern child asked me, "Y'all fi'n t'go?" I had him repeat it about five times before it clicked.
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