[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.

[UCANSEE2]

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.

It's just slang for , or an abbreviated form of 'reckoning'.

[muawiyah]

As everybody knows there are more Swedes in America, mostly in the upper Midwest, than in Sweden, but did you also realize there are more Danes in America, mostly in the lower Midwest (aka Ohio Valley), than in Denmark. Indianapolis is the buckle on the Danish Belt BTW.

The Danish word for "reckon" is pret'near the same, but itself doesn't translate into reckon on Google.Translate ~ so somebody thinks reckon doesn't work anymore.

Here's a clue on the term ~ there are people from the Mid Souf who use a phrase containing the word and the phrase itself has developed it's own independent existence.

I'm referring to "reckon as to how". Wisconsin English speaking ethnic Germans picked that one up and I would regularly catch them trying to stuff "as to how" into postal handbooks or regulations.

First time I saw it in writing put me into a laughing fit that made my guts hurt ~ still hurt in fact ~ it was just incredibly funny.

The rough equivalent in Czech and Slovak native speakers is the need for to insert "yet" at the end of English sentences! It's somewhat habitual with everyone from Chicago. There are videos out there of Obama saying what he was going to say (on the teleprompter) and then he says "yet" as a sort of end point telling you 'no mas" or something.

NOTE: There was this area of Danish conquest and settlement in Great Britain. It was called "The Danelaw". They're the ol'boys who say "ask" as "axe". That usage is not Eubonics but Danish.

[wolfman23601]

I live in Southern Virginia and nobody uses “reckon”. I always thought of it more as an Appalatia term that they use in the Western part of the state and WVA, KY, TN, and Western NC. Never thought of it as Southern per se.