Re: My version

--- On Sat, 2/21/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: My version
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 12:23 PM
> >
> > Most of them had at least 300 years --more if you take
> into account
> > settlement patterns. How does that compare to other
> dialects?
> > An interesting relic of former dialects are surnames,
> especially
> > British lastnames, in parts of the US. Mc Carricker
> > Calico, Kennedy
> > > Cannaday, Canada stand out in my memory but in
> the area where WV,
> > VA, KY, TN & NC (almost) come together, there are
> some odd ones.
> > Melungeon genealogists sometimes come with some
> howlers in terms of
> > the origins of these names --claiming they're from
> Turkish, but
> > they are mainly Scots-Irish
>
> I ran into a couple of common German-substrate (my
> interpretation)
> expressions in the Midwest:
>
> 'I want out',
> Brit.Eng. 'I want to get out',
> German 'Ich will raus'

This is common US

>
> 'Are you coming with?',
> Brit.Eng. 'Are you coming with us/along',
> German 'Kommst du mit'?

I've only heard this in "Katzenjammer English"

>
>

I'd probably add "yet" as "still" "He's there yet", or as my aunts and uncles said "He's still here yet."