Heard on The Judges: "_for_ to"

[Wilson Gray]

Late-teen-aged, black male college student from Ohio, using
Northern-BE phonology, i.e. r-ful, "right" [raIt]:

"I went to college _for_ to do the right thing."


I know that the continued use of "for to" is hardly startling, but the
fact that it was used by such a young, Northern person I thought might
be of peripheral interest.
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-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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-Mark Twain

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