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and1 coordinating conjunction In dates, used to separate numbers, especially hundreds from tens. [DARE labels this usage "chiefly South, Midland]
1862 Huntley CW Letters (May 20) All men Between the age of eighteen and 35 is in for the War. 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) The summer of nineteen and twenty-eight there came a fellow down here from New York City and wanted to go a-fishing. 1969 GSMNP-44:12 I turned in my resignation on the third Sunday in February, nineteen and thirty-nine, and moved straight on next week to Haywood County, and I’ve been there ever since. 1997 Dante OHP-14 He’s born in nineteen and four.
and2 subordinating conjunction What with, while, because, despite the fact that (used to introduce a verb-less clause usually having a progressive verb or the implied form being). [Scotland and Ireland; probably from the influence of Irish or Scottish Gaelic agus "and"]
1861 Hileman CW Letters (Aug 23) Last night their was a sort of a stir in camp we was called out about 9 Oclock P M and it Raining to Boot. 1916 Schockel KY Mts 121 Then if the soil won’t produce, I’d have to come back, an’ them set agin me. 1939 Hall Coll (Sylva NC) That woman is doing too much work, and her in a family way. 1941 Justus Kettle Creek 98 It does seem a pity that the hens have about stopped laying now and it Christmas time. 1956 Hall Coll (Del Rio TN) He would steal the hat off your head, and you a-looking at him. 1971 AOHP/ALC-4 He worked on after he got his back broke, but he worked on for years, loaded coal, and him [in] awful bad shape. 1976 Carter Little Tree 75 Granpa said that he couldn't have done any better hisself, and him going on seventy odd years. 1985 Schmidt and Hooks Whistle 140 She took that pig out and hugged that pig and it just a-squealin' like one thing.