Edgar Wright

In 1960 NW Ontario we had a teacher raised in British Columbia who encouraged us to /ʍ/ our whats, whens, & wheres but it was foreign to my generation. My mother used it for emphasis but eventually stopped.

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A little Vulgate goes a long way

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Peripheral Pickings

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Grandmother born near there. I remember a childhood friend & I comparing the unique vocabulary of our Scots grannies and oxter was first on the list.

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Ayup, That’s Some Good When he lived in Nova Scotia, Jeffrey from Montreal, Canada, noted that the word some was often used as an intensifier, as in That’s some good or She’s some pretty or She’s right some pretty.

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Dictionary of Newfoundland English A-Z Index

Some is used as an intensifier in Canada’s Atlantic provinces, especially Nova Scotia and Newfoundland: www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/a...

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Missing final “at”.

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in the slim chance this is not in your references

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cracks's wi' robbie doo : Joseph Laing Waugh : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Merry Christmas!

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