ORIGINS {DRAFT COPY #2 currently being edited}
The word “antegodlin“ first appeared in American English in the eastern United States somewhere between 1895 and 1900. It spread rapidly during the early 1900’s across the southeastern United States, across Texas, and into the Southwest. Its usage peaked between the 1930’s and 1940’s, as the word was in common usage throughout the southern and western states.
In the 1950’s and 1960’s, as formal education became more standardized throughout the U.S., and as regional dialects became increasingly supplanted by
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