[fidelis]

“This is huge. Wherever we dig, we find houses – we reckon there are around 200 of them,” says Andres Dobat, a lecturer in prehistoric archaeology at Aarhus University...
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“Reckon”? This guy must be from SOUTH Denmark.

[muawiyah]

This utterly pedestrian and quite commonly used word in the Midwest is apparently identified by some parties as being typical of the South, and without any literary use.

I think they are nuts.

Can't imagine talking without using this word.

[rmlew]

We are talking about Schleiswig, which is so far south in Denmark, that it’s been German since the 1864.

[muawiyah]

This utterly pedestrian and quite commonly used word in the Midwest is apparently identified by some parties as being typical of the South, and without any literary use.

I think they are nuts.

Can't imagine talking without using this word.

[tet68]

“Reckon”? This guy must be from SOUTH Denmark.

Only if he had said, “ Sh*t I reckon.”

[fieldmarshaldj]

I reckon.

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s English. The use of “reckon” came to be regarded as archaic and fell out of usage in other areas of the country, but it remains in the south and midwest. Whether that’s attributable to migratory patterns or not, well, I’d say I reckon so, lol. An English usage regarded as archaic elsewhere in the country becoming common parlance amongst midwesterners has to be attributed to an outside source, since the population has a far more continental European heritage. That source was southerners, largely of English heritage, who also struck out for the west, particularly during and after the Civil War.

[BobL]

““This is huge. Wherever we dig, we find houses...”

Same problem in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Florida. That’s why all the banks crashed. If you lend out money like it’s candy, people will build un-needed houses.

...although I’m not sure the same forces were at work in this case.