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Marius Hancu
Nov 17, 2015, 1:34:55 AM11/17/15
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Hello,
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[Three dangerous boys. One of them has been at Mrs. Cope's place before.]
“Where did you all go when you left here?” Mrs. Cope asked and put the
plate of crackers on the arm of his chair.
He looked at it but didn’t take one. He said, “I remember it was one
[horse] name Gene and it was one name George. We gone to Florda and my
daddy he, you know, died, and then we gone to my sister’s and then my
mother she, you know, mah’d, and we been there ever since.”
Flannery O’Connor, A Stroke of Good Fortune
~~~
"mah’d": could it mean "married"?
Thanks.
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Marius Hancu
~~~
[Three dangerous boys. One of them has been at Mrs. Cope's place before.]
“Where did you all go when you left here?” Mrs. Cope asked and put the
plate of crackers on the arm of his chair.
He looked at it but didn’t take one. He said, “I remember it was one
[horse] name Gene and it was one name George. We gone to Florda and my
daddy he, you know, died, and then we gone to my sister’s and then my
mother she, you know, mah’d, and we been there ever since.”
Flannery O’Connor, A Stroke of Good Fortune
~~~
"mah’d": could it mean "married"?
Thanks.
--
Marius Hancu
Ross
Nov 17, 2015, 1:59:01 AM11/17/15
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doesn't inappropriately suggest some other word.
Some Southern dialects do drop /r/ even in this environment.
I'm guessing phonetically it might be something like [m&:Id].
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