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>Here's the funny part, if by funny you mean mind-bendingly
>frustrating, about this branch of the thread: The character who says
>it? Is me. And I think maybe I know how I talk.

I feel your pain. As a writer who grew up in Oklahoma and Arkansas, spent most of a decade in New Orleans, and now lives in Dallas, having beta readers who are in the northeast and the UK gets... interesting. Sometimes we know that what we're doing is a colloquialism, but sometimes we just go "Bwah?" and shake our heads, because it seems perfectly normal to us.

Shalon Wood