dialect tidbit

[Orin Hargraves]

>
>I'll add my great-aunt's "good night shirt!!," in which the shirt was
>simply added for emphasis.  I never heard her swear, but this one and one
>I can't pull together at the moment which started "chicken..." and was
>xclearly another of her euphemisms.
>
I also had a great aunt (from SW Louisiana), admirable for her avoidance of
vulgarisms. Her expression of great surprise was "For garden seed!"

Orin Hargraves