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Regionalism of the day: what all
Wednesday, June 13, 2007   1:10 PM

Another dispatch from the trenches. A Tennessean wrote:

I asked, "What all kinds of seafood do you have?"

A quick Google search turns up similar Tennessee-related usages. I find this use of what all, apparently predominantly Southern, quite charming.

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