Date:  Thu, 13 Mar 1997 00:00:11 -0800
From:  Kim & Rima McKinzey <rkm[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SLIP.NET>
Subject: Re: "how good of"

>
>Does it also jar you, Mark, when you hear some crusty old codger say "I
>don't sleep so good of a night anymore"? This "of a night" was never in my
>language, but I learned to suppress "how good of...." when I became an
>English teacher.

It jarred me when I heard my born and bred Oklahoma mother-in-law say "of a
morning" in phrases such as "I have toast of a morning" instead of in the
morning or every morning.

Rima