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Ted, I would have expected you to reply to the first, "If you DON'T HAVE any---" But of course you wanted to be understood. That's where it's AT, right?
When I and my Kentuckian husband moved to south Georgia, one of the little girls in the neighborhood told one of mine,"I want to take after you when I grow up. You talk so nice!" And my at-the-time preschooler insisted that another neighbor called her son Daniel "Dan-yoo". Sounded to me like "Da-yan-yul".
And yes, usually the poorer language habits prevail. I've had to become much less a purist, to retain a remnant of my remnant of my sanity!
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