Heard on The Judges: "over GEOGRAPHICAL LOC"

[Wilson Gray]

Some may recall Ray Charles's claiming to have a woman way _over town_.

Twenty-ish black, female plaintiff speaking of her ex-boyfriend:

"He was with his friends _over north_."


I've never heard this type of locution in the wild before.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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 -Sam'l Clemens

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