From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 63360
Date: 2009-02-22
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@>These constructions also occur in English English.
> wrote:
> > > Usage note :
> > > In many dialects [I add : of American English that is to say],
> > > people use as in place of that in sentences like <We are not sure
> > > as we want to go> or <It's not certain as he left>. This
> > > construction is not sufficiently well established to be used in
> > > writing.
> >
> > Along with other constructions exemplified in the same dictionary
> > entry (<Them as thinks they can whup me jest come ahead> and <The
> > car what hit him never stopped>), I wonder, and ask the connoisseurs
> > of American English on the List, if this type of constructions isn't
> > simply the product of an ignorance of English grammar.
> That type of constructions _sounds_ like ignorance of English grammar,
> and may well be, but I don't think you'd ever encounter them outside
> of certain geographical boundaries (e.g. the southern Appalachians or
> the Ozarks).