Summary: | that But Mom had long rubbers and that and she used to dig up potatoes. [This "filler," or "punctuation," will be hard to handle, but it is very widespread in narratives. A weak analogy is the "you know" liberally sprinkled in many people's convrsations. I think the sense is 'I don't want to go into other details,' but we'd need a number of other contexts.] [2nd note: Very widespread in British dialect transcriptions (Wakelin). If in current colloq., we can't claim.]K Printed item PRINTED ITEM _DNE Sup_. G. M. Story OCT 13 1987 WK Used I and Sup Used Sup Used Sup
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