l not -l wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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> On 6-May-2015, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
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> > We are fixing to. . .
> What part of the south were you born in? I have not heard the phrase
> "fixing to", or more accurately "fixin' to", since I moved from
> Kentucky 50+ years ago - except occasionally, when visiting in the
> south.

Common enough. I avoid the odder ones because you get too many
comments. Last time I said widdershins, I got some mighty strange
looks.

Carol

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