Want I should?

[Scot LaFaive]

Oh yeah, and the only form I've heard it in is "You want I should..." in a
question.

Scot


>From: Scot LaFaive <spiderrmonkey at HOTMAIL.COM>
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>Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:26:38 -0500
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>So it's considered Appalachian? Interesting.
>Another interesting tid bit is that the only times I've ever heard it have
>been on TV by various characters; I heard it on Medium the other day and I
>recall someone on Leave It To Beaver saying it. Could it be both writers
>were Appalachian? I would guess it is as localized as it might once have
>been.
>BTW, I see from the internets that a lot of people associate this with
>Yiddish.
>
>Scot
>
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> >The excerpt below is from my _Dictionary of Smoky
> >Mountain English_ (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2004).  A
> >Yiddish source is out of the question, but a German
> >one is much more tantalizing.  Quite a few more people
> >settled in southern Appalachia whose own language or
> >ancestral language was German than is usually
> >recognized.
> >
> >Michael
> >
> >want verb
> >   1 with ellipsis of following that, with a dependent
> >clause as object of the verb.
> >   1928 Mathes (in 1952 Mathes Tall Tales 43) Child, I
> >want ye should think about it all yer days!  1931
> >Goodrich Mt Homespun 49 They want you should use the
> >hickory on some of them rough boys.  ibid. 54 Maw
> >wants you should go with her tomorrow to her aunts' in
> >Tennessy.  1975 Chalmers Better 59 Pink's wife's been
> >took bad, and Doc wants you should come and he'p him.
> >
> >
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> > > I'm curious where or in what group "want I should"
> > > is spoken and from, as in
> > > "You want I should come over?" I found the link
> > > below that says it's from
> > > Yiddish. (BTW, is this "Ben" on the ads-list?)
> > >
> > >
> >http://positiveanymore.blogspot.com/2006/03/you-want-i-should-grow-beard.html
> > >
> > > Scot
> > >
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