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To: don-o; varina davis

I have often heard “carry” so used in the NC Piedmont — years ago, when I was a young’un — and have heard old-timers use it in Southwest Virginia where I live now. “I carried Lizzy to trade at the K-mark.” “Carried” meaning drove and “to trade” meaning to shop.


55 posted on 03/26/2010 8:04:30 AM PDT by jay1949 (Work is the curse of the blogging class)
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To: jay1949

From the time I learned to read, my grandmother’s use of K-Mark for K-Mart drove my crazy! I wanted to say Granma, that’s not the way to say it, but I was brought up to be polite and not correct my elders, so I just suffered in silence. Now I wish she was here to say it that way.


115 posted on 03/26/2010 9:47:13 AM PDT by kalee (The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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