ascared

[Beverly Flanigan]

"Afeared" is also So. Midland/Appalachian; and we all have "afraid," which
may be the result of metathesis?  (I don't have DARE or OED here; perhaps
someone will check.)

Beverly

At 01:20 PM 7/20/2006, you wrote:
>DARE marks "ascared" ("ascairt," etc.) as Chiefly South Midland, with
>quotations from 1926 forward.
>
>Either the New York speaker came from the midland South, or she's non-Chiefly!
>
>--Charlie
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>---- Original message ----
> >Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:49:48 -0700
> >From: Brenda Lester <alphatwin2002 at YAHOO.COM>
> >Subject: ascared
> >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >
> >
> >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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