ascared

[Barnhart]

ascared is an entry in DARE: chiefly Midlands and Southern.  [citations
from wNC, csKY, TX, and DARE informants in CA, IL, MD, Mi., TN, GA.]

Wentworth (American Dialect Dictionary) has citations from w.NC, n.W.Vir.,
w.N.C.-e.Tenn.

Regards,
David (a few miles south of Rhinebeck)

barnhart at highlands.com

American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on Thursday, July 20,
2006 at 12:49 PM -0500 wrote:
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>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.
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