Date:  Thu, 6 Nov 1997 08:19:41 -0600
From:  Tom Head <tlh[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NETDOOR.COM>
Subject: Re: "it's all good"

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Bonnie Briggs wrote:

> I've heard this expression all of my life. It was common to here someone say
> something like "You were wrong from the git-go." It was usually used to mean
> "from the beginning". It is probably more a product of Southern
> English than what people refer to as Ebonics.

I've heard it all of my life as well, as a Mississippian. Then again,
there is a massive mutual influence between what people refer to as
Ebonics and Southern English, which has (I would imagine) increased a
great deal over the past twenty years due largely to integration.

Of course, as a Southerner, I'm trying to figure out how "git-go" is
pronounced differently from "get-go". ;o)

Tom Head
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