PASSED (AWAY) (was 'disappearing prepositions')

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Oct 24, 2004, at 11:18 AM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> 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...

certainly in use by my mother's pennsylvania dutch family, back ca. 60
years.

arnold