Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
why no one use [ i reckon ] in USA ?
ok so in wales, people use i reckon in every freaking sentence. and to be honest it's much easier way to form your own opinion. for example, instead of saying in my opinion, you just say i reckon and so on. i just thought about that and i think i'm going to use it often
4 Answers
- AidenLv 42 years agoFavorite Answer
They use it in the southeastern states, but that accent sounds substandard. It might be a false belief that it’s the alveolar form of ‘recking’ which has died out. When a southerner said ‘reckon’, the stupid yankee thought he was saying ‘reckin’’. So we just avoided the word. That’s my guess. I’m not always accurate. But in the US, anything a Brit says sounds correct.
- 18 gibbs 20Lv 72 years ago
It's considered more of a slang term used mainly by lower class southerners in USA.
