Dee Dee wrote:
>
> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
>> Steve Pope said...
>>
>>> In article >, Andy <q> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So somewhere in the parking lot at TJs there's a shopping cart
>>>> with two pork tenderloins in it.
>>>
>>> What do you mean by "somewhere in the parking lot"? Did you not
>>> return the cart to the cart area in front of the store?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>>
>> They have little shopping cart stalls in the parking lot as a convenience
>> to
>> the customers. An attendant gathers them up and walks them to the
>> storefront
>> every so often.
>>
>> Andy
>
> Andy, is this word, as you used it, "every" a colloquism (sp?) in your
> region?
>
> I've heard so many say "every," in this context, as well as "ever," so I
> don't know which is a colloquism and which is not, at this point.

I was raised in the upper Midwest of the US. We used "every so often".
I've lived in Southern California US for 26 years. It's "every so
often"
here.

To my ears, "ever so often" sounds Dixie.

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