I've been knowin' her for a long time

[Jonathan Lighter]

Unless I'm mistaken, "I've BEEN knowin' that" is fairly common among white Southerners as well.

  But not Northerners.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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It looks very much like the BE "I BIN knowin' that" and "I BIN knowin'
him," that I'm acccustomed to using and hearing in East Texas and in
Saint Louis, whereas I've never heard the "I BIN *know* that" and "I
BIN *know* him" that has been examined quite thoroughly by John Baugh,
but which I, personally, am familiar with *only* from his work. Don't
know no reason why not. Just ain't never heard it.

-Wilson

On 11/28/06, RonButters at aol.com wrote:
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> In a message dated 11/28/06 2:08:15 PM, wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM writes:
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> > "I've been knowin' that" (has this form ever been discussed here ?) since=20
> > kidhood.
> >=20
> > =A0 JL
> >=20
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> Also "I've been knowin' him"--this is something I noticed in North Carolina,=
> =20
> but not in the Midwest.
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