"do a crap"

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "have"


Whereabouts do Americans say that? Just kidding.

I'm familiar with "whereabouts" in place of simple "where" from down home
in Marshall, where it's usual in the local BE, but not from anywhere else.
However, after finding this,

whereabouts - Oxford Dictionaries
www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/.../whereabouts
OxfordDictionaries.com
Definition of whereabouts in American English in Oxford dictionary. Meaning
... adverb. Where or approximately where: _whereabouts do you come from?_

I'm forced to make an agonizing reappraisal, since, clearly, this use of
"whereabouts" isn't peculiar to the peops down home, despite my previous
impression.

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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.
-Mark Twain

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