ATD p186

[Carvill John]

Aha, just hit another one, page 192, "...ain't like that I don't know how."


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> > "...it seemed like that the whole firmament was coming unstitched."
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>Get used to the "like that" construction -- lots more coming.
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>My fiirst take was that it was a western US regionalism, but I think I've
>noticed it in several narrative voices, so it may have been idiomatic in 
>the
>period. Anybody have a DARE handy?
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