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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
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.
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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.