Indeed, I had an experience of inner turmoil over whether or not to use the phrase "fixing to" in my last post. You see, I am a Grammar Girl and after searching her website thoroughly with every variation of "fixing to" possible, I came up with zero results. This indicated to me that it is incorrect grammar.
Nonetheless, I have a deep appreciation of cultural dialects and my Southernness won out. I typed "fixing to," backspaced and typed "going to," backspaced and typed "fixing to," backspaced and typed "about to," before finally backspacing and leaving it as "fixing to."
Yee-haw!
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5 comments:
I should have mentioned that I love that you used it! I totally say that all the time. :)
I agree.
I just read the post about Jesse's reaction to fried okra. I actually have NO WORDS. How does someone go their entire life without knowing and loving the beauty that is fried okra?
I had no idea what 'fixing to' means.
About to? Going to?
Hi Peggy! How is it going? Give us an update! I hope you are enjoying Washington again. Karina
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