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To: fidelis
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.

6 posted on 07/03/2012 7:43:20 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
we reckon there are around 200 of them

Yes, the word is used quite properly, in its basic sense of "estimate."

10 posted on 07/03/2012 7:55:49 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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