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Maine Lingo: Prit'near

Paul Doiron July 26, 2010

Another in my occasional series of Down East colloquialisms:

PRIT'NEAR: Just about, almost. As in, "Melvin prit'near had a heart attack when he saw the bill for that pantsuit I bought over at Reny's."

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