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Phrase means: I don't mind to do that, historian says

Mike Watson writes:
This is a familiar phrase to me. We always interpreted it as, "I don't mind to..."

It isn't pecular to our area. For many years I taught with a lady who enjoyed telling about her first classroom experiences in far eastern Kentucky. One smacks of the phrase in question...

Upon arriving at the out-of-the-way school, the teacher asked one of a group of boys nearby if he would please carry a box from her car to the classroom. His reply was, "I wouldn't care to." She took this to mean he did not wish to, so she asked another student and received the same response. Later, she concluded his meaning to be "I don't mind to..." -Mike Watson
Comments re article 42969 - Local speech: What does I don't care to do that mean




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