Osiyo M's Ellen, Thank your for taking the time to comment as well as read. "Sounds" right to me, also! Grandma Oliver would say that folks spoke and wrote without "airs". She, also, said that they were taught to read before they went to school, 'cause they used the Bible as reading material. Many of those speech markers are left overs from northern Irish and Lowland Scots. Wado, Bill Oliver ILJOHNSO-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Subject: > Re: [ILJOHNSO] Little Egypt Heritage, Ullans, 7 May 2006, Vol 5 #17 > From: > Emandrwm@aol.com > Date: > Tue, 9 May 2006 09:56:08 EDT > To: > ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com > > To: > ILJOHNSO-L@rootsweb.com > > >Always enjoy the write-ups, but one thing really stuck out in this last >one--the use of "t" for "ed." My husband's gr grandmother left little >diaries--like composition books, written in pencil. When I first began typing them, I >saw the term, like, "John past." At first I thought someone had died, but >when the person appeared later, I finally realized, she meant "John came by their >house" and probably visited for a little while. Now I realize it wasn't too >unusual. Ellen Moore > >