PASSED (AWAY) (was 'disappearing prepositions')

[Sam Clements]

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Subject: PASSED (AWAY) (was 'disappearing prepositions')


>I never heard PASSED for PASSED AWAY until >1967, when I moved from Iowa to
>North Carolina, where I began to hear it in the speech >of African
Americans of
>all social classes. I also have a sense that it was found >then in folk
speech
>among whites as well. I don't know what the DARE files >might tell us about
>this, but my guess is that it is (or at least was) a >Southernism.

White, born in Danville VA in 1944, lived in Arlington Va until 1966.  Had
dozens of Southern Virginia relatives.

Never heard "passed" until I taught in an all-Black High School in NC,
1967-70.

Sam Clements