dialect tidbit

[Sally Donlon]

I've heard it in my part of the South (Louisiana) and in
Ireland as "Great day in the morning!"

sally donlon



Beverly Flanigan wrote:

> A student of mine from SW Virginia (Roanoke) gave me a phrase that first
> sounds like a phatic greeting but really isn't:  "Good day!" or "Good day
> in the morning time!" or "Great day (in the morning time)!"  It's really an
> interjection, meaning "Wow! Gosh! Heck!" (her words).
>
> Has anyone else heard of this expression?  The student's classmate from
> northeastern Virginia was not familiar with it.  But the more I think of
> it, the more it sounds vaguely like an Irish expression.  Ring a bell?
>
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