Southern 2nd-person plural double genitive

[Mark A. Mandel]

Jessie Emerson <jessie at SIRSI.COM> writes:

>>>>>
An aside:  Doesn't the coastal southern dialect map dip really high once it
gets into Mississippi?
<<<<<

"Dip high?" While I think I know what s/he (sorry! name ambiguous!) means,
I've only ever heard "dip" used for a *downward* deviation.

(Of course, I scoff at those -- are there any left? -- who insist that
"climb down" is a contradiction in terms.)

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