ascared

[Brenda Lester]

Just caught a news report about the power outage in the Bronx. A woman said she was "ascared."  I was raised in Georgia, and I've always considered that word to be a regionalism, used mostly by young children.

  Brenda Lester
  Rhinebeck, NY



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