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Originally Posted by Gudy
So as the only contributor in this thread so far who has even heard of this thing, you get saddled with the follow-up question: This would be in regional vernacular of which region? Canada? Northern US? If so, which part(s) of it?
I've had a (completely unfounded, I admit) suspicion that it might be an Upper Peninsula or Minnesota thing due to some other linguistic weirdnesses going on in that area, stemming back from the large pool of northern European immigrants in the past. So I'm intrigued that you're from Canada whereas a Brit, a Texan and a Chicagoan all have - like me - never heard of this thing.
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I got the impression that it's used in some of the southern states. "He used to like a nice big cup of coffee of a morning." Some of the ranchers around here also like to talk that way sometimes.