My people are of Indiana by way of Virginia, and kept almost all of the speech patterns. So white I practically glow. Can confirm.
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i dont understand how people are misinterpreting your question when you literally could not be more clearly talking about pronunciation/annunciation and not how common the phrase itself is
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I’m pretty sure I’ve said ‘fixing to’ at least once, but I’m awkward so it all makes sense.
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It's fixinna
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It entered my vocabulary permanently as 'fixinta' while listening to a Richard Pryor record as a child
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I don't even think "fixing to" is proper King's English. I think it's something a grammer Nazi would say to replace with "preparing" "about to" or something else.
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Even in Portland, we have a place called “The Fixin’ To”. Can’t imagine the -g is pronounced anywhere.
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