I reckon.
Posted on 07/03/2012 7:16:38 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
“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.
I think they are nuts.
Can't imagine talking without using this word.
We are talking about Schleiswig, which is so far south in Denmark, that it’s been German since the 1864.
I think they are nuts.
Can't imagine talking without using this word.
“Reckon”? This guy must be from SOUTH Denmark.
Only if he had said, “ Sh*t I reckon.”
I reckon.
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.
Yes, the word is used quite properly, in its basic sense of "estimate."
It's just slang for , or an abbreviated form of 'reckoning'.
It’s not slang at all. You’ll hear very proper, even posh accented English speakers using the word today.
“Can’t imagine talking without using this word”. yours must be an intellect to be reckoned with
The more common use of it in my area is a substitute for “guess”.
Archaeologists are digging up a legendary Viking town in northern Germany.
Incredibaly enough, the main topic of discussion on this thread is the use of the word, “reckon”.
That's why I said, "or..."
What is interesting is that it has somehow become associated with or thought of as 'redneck' slang. Perhaps because of TV and Movies ? Perhaps it's just me.
: )
True... but if we can figger out why the Archaeologist used the word 'reckon', then we will know why the Vikings would go to all the trouble to bury an entire town over in Germany.
Rural people use it most frquently. Rednecks tend rural. It sounds quaint or even backward to ears unaccustomed to hearing it, so movie and television scripts seem to contain it more often than not.
“..then we will know why the Vikings would go to all the trouble to bury an entire town over in Germany.”
I think their guide was lousy in his “dead reckoning” and they were lost.
BFL - thanks
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