Re: Re: "at" at the end of a where phrase

[J. Eulenberg]

I don't have the slightest idea, and how clever of you to have asked the
question I never thought to ask?  I know that she came from somewhere in
the South, because she didn't sound that far different from the rest of
us.  Perhaps she had the same school teachers that others of that
generation did -- good handwriting and spelling and grammar skills drilled
into them by a teacher who probably did no more than graduate from high
school somewhere!

Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg <eulenbrg at u.washington.edu>

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

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> In a message dated 12/6/03 8:35:48 PM, eulenbrg at U.WASHINGTON.EDU writes:
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> How lucky y'all were to have Miss Smith to tell you what was right and what=20
> was wrong! But how did SHE know?
>
> > Miss Smith, for whom I
> > am now eternally grateful, explained that the correct answer to "Where are
> > you at?" or "Where are you going to?" was "between the a and the t, or the
> > t and the o," which ever applied.=A0 It was a great phrase to use among
> > ourselves, but I have grown increasingly careful about using it now . . .
> > when even distinguished folk make the errors.
> >=20
>