dreckly

[Dan Goodman]

On 03/18/2014 10:29 AM, Baker, John wrote:
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One indication suggestive of the status of "dreckly" as a word is
> that the same speaker, if describing travel by the shortest route,
> would refer to it as going "directly."  However, it remains true
> that the connection between "dreckly" and "directly" was never
> severed. An analogy might be the term "young'uns," arguably
> lexicalized in its own right but still recognized as a form of "young
> ones."
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Or "bob wire" "barbed wire."  (Hudson Valley dialect; 1950s, don't know
for sure that "bob wire" is still used in Ulster County, etc.)



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> On Mar 18, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Joan H. Hall wrote:
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>> DARE shows "dreckly" in the sense "Soon, after a while" to be found
>> chiefly in the South and South Midland. No ideas about Cornish
>> background, though.
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> I wonder to what extent this is really a word of its own, though.
> If I heard someone say they'd be here /'drEkli/, I'd parse that as a
> reduced or allegro form of "directly" and not really a distinct
> lexeme deserving of its own entry any more than "awright" or
> "cumfterfbull".  Now "dreck(i)ly" = 'in a shitty manner', that would
> be something else.

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