"at" at the end of a where phrase

[Steve Kl.]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Beverly Flanigan wrote:

> I too had a teacher who taught us how to analyze Latin-based words (a
> useful tool I wish my grad students had), do library research and write
> decent papers (another skill often lacking), and appreciate good
> literature.  But when she tore down a sign at a bake sale during a
> basketball game because it said "Boughten Cookies," she shamed us and our
> origins.  It was years later, of course, that I learned 'boughten' is a
> common Northern participial adjective and felt vindicated.

Michigander that I am, I never even knew boughten was considered regional
until I became a lexicographer. It had never even crossed my mind that it
might be a regionalism. Growing up, there was homemade bread, and there
was boughten bread, and that was that.