Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 23:39:54 -0700

From: Rudy Troike RTROIKE[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU

Subject: het/heated



In response to a posting a while back by Jeutonne Brewer re her

mother-in-law's use of het as the past tense of heat, vb (clearly different

from the Pennsylvania usage of het in the present tense reported by Molly

Dickmeyer), I recall what seemingly was once a common South Midland (and

Southern?) expression "Don't get all het [=heated] up about it." I don't

know if this was included in the LAGS survey. Clearly we've lost a good

strong verb form.

Rudy

--Rudy Troike (rtroike[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ccit.arizona.edu)