Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 13:34:01 -0500

From: BARBARA HILL HUDSON BHHUDSON[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GROVE.IUP.EDU

Subject: Re: *fixin' to* and *like to* -- Dialectal Aspects



Wolfram mentions liketa [like to] in his Dialects and American English and I've

heard older African Americans use the expression "fenna" for fixing to meaning

about ready to. For example, "I'm fenna go to the store now, you want

anything?"



Barbara Hill Hudson

Rhetoric and Linguistics

IUP

Indiana, PA