Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 11:52:44 -0500

From: Linda Urschel lurschel[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HUNTINGTON.EDU

Subject: Re: "git go"



Beth,



I've heard this expression many times, and it is, in fact, in my own

vocabulary. I live about 25 miles west of Ft. Wayne.



Linda Urschel

Huntington College











At 10:44 AM 11/4/97 EST, you wrote:

The phrase, "from the git-go," which may be better known now

from televised sports, wasn't used in (urban--such as it is) Iowa.

It is common in Wisconsin, and I'm here to say, unknown in neIndiana

.



beth simon

assistant professor, linguistics and english

indiana university purdue university

simon[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu