Peg Herring's Blog - Posts Tagged "proper-usage"
Makin' It Work
A long-ago conversation comes to mind:
A rather pedantic professor once asked a friend of mine, who is from Texas, what he was going to do after class. His reply: "I'm repairin' to go to lunch."
The prof apparently saw a chance to lecture on a favorite topic. "You people from the South are so careless!" she told him. "Pay attention to your wording. You meant that you are PREPARING to go to lunch after class. You should not have said REPAIRING. REPAIR means "to fix."
"That's what I meant," said the Texan. "I'm fixin' to go have lunch."
A rather pedantic professor once asked a friend of mine, who is from Texas, what he was going to do after class. His reply: "I'm repairin' to go to lunch."
The prof apparently saw a chance to lecture on a favorite topic. "You people from the South are so careless!" she told him. "Pay attention to your wording. You meant that you are PREPARING to go to lunch after class. You should not have said REPAIRING. REPAIR means "to fix."
"That's what I meant," said the Texan. "I'm fixin' to go have lunch."
