Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 15:34:00 -0500
From: Bob Haas rahaas[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HAMLET.UNCG.EDU
Subject: Re: Fixinto
On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Mary E. Zeigler wrote:
We at Georgia State are working on the use of "fixinto" and her family in
Metropolitan Atlanta. Can you give us leads on historical studies as
well as more recent studies--impirical or otherwise-- on this term?
Mary,
Why "fixinto," why one word? Where did you get this spelling? I'm
interested simply because it would seem to run the separate words
together and I very much see the term as two words--fixin' to . . .
whatever one is fixin' to. Just curious.
Bob Haas
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
rahaas[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]hamlet.uncg.edu