[LMB] first mutant fruits or maybe an unfamilar idiom

Peter Granzeau pgranzeau at cox.net
Sat May 3 17:17:49 BST 2008


At 11:52 AM 5/3/2008, CatMtn at aol.com wrote:
>On page 346, first line "Let's go set to the roof."  "Set to" meant  "begin" 
>in the rural areas I'm familiar with, so this sounds odd to me.

I agree.  I might have written "Let's go set on the roof,' which is what I think she meant.  "Set" is a common midwestern replacement for "sit", as I remember.


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Regards, Pete
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