A variation on "took and V-ed"

[Herb Stahlke]

I grew up a take and speaker in SE Michigan.  We had "took and" and "take
and."
"Takes and" and "taking and" just feel wrong to me, and I don't thing they
were common, if they occurred at all.  I've also heard "up/upped and," but
that had more a sense of abruptness than the take forms.

Herb


On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> The Jerry Springer Show, a guy pissing and moaning because his brother has
> eaten cheese on him:
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> "You _are taking and telling_ my girlfriend things that I don't want her to
> know!"
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> I'd have expected
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> "You _took and told_ ...," given that his brother had told only one thing
> only one time. But,
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> Youneverknow.
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