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begin verb Past tense of begin. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1864 C A Walker CW Letters (April 26) they would fire at us and directly the[y] begin to leave their brest works and we poured it into them. 1939 Hall Coll (Indian Creek NC) When it begin to break daylight till she could see to walk, she took her two little kids and went on in home. 1956 Hall Coll (Waynesville NC) The dogs begin running the coons. 1998 Dante OHP-24 When work picked up and begin to run, I was in about five hundred dollars in debt with the company.