[lit-ideas] Re: If you had your druthers...pearten up
- From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 10:25:54 -0800
In the spirit of not passing interesting posts unacknowledged, I didn't even
know what druthers meant. FWIW.
Druthers, as opposed to its earlier variant drathers, is traced back to 1876 in
Dialect Notes:
"Bein's I caint have my druthers an' set still, I cal'late I'd better pearten
up an' go 'long."
Robert Paul, active fellow that he is, probably says this all day long.
I can’t find anything on “pearten up."
David Ritchie,
going along in
Portland, Oregon
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