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The only place I have ever used bedight is in singing Brahms lullaby to my little children, and that was fifty years ago. I use bedecked on occasion but not often and it serves me well.
I don't care for "all decked out" as it is slang I have read but never actually heard anyone say. In Red Neck land we say “dressed fit to kill”. I have no idea why.

Slava's offering to this thread pretty well sets the usage for me.

The history of the words is confusing to me also.

That's funny! "All decked out" is something we definitely say... but I grew up a long way from official red neck land. We also use "dressed fit to kill", however, so we are not unable to communicate.

So did the dudes, dandies, and toffs!

So Perry, South by birth or by choice?
Do you consider yourself in redneck country?

He will, of course, speak for himself, but if Perry says he isn't a Red Neck from Red Neck country he is puttin' on airs. We do have citified ways in the cities of the South and a lot of Yankee immigrants. Some of us have a smattering of education and we do wear shoes to church. But scratch a Southerner's veneer and you get a Red Neck. There are several of us on the Agora. We are harmless.

harmless? really?

that's a disappointment.
Where in the South?

Phillip's in Dallas, i'm in N Louisiana, both by birth and choice. Spent three years in school in Louisville that thinks its southern, but ain't - they put spaghetti in chili up there and consider it a seasonal dish. My last year I went out in a short sleeved shirt in April in 45 degree weather and decided I had been up there too long. Why anyone lives north of Memphis I have NO idea.

I grew up south of San Antonio. I was pretty sure the Mason Dixon Line was just North of San Antonio. Now that I live in Dallas and have traveled widely, even to Yankee Land and to Europe, I can say with Perry that Memphis is about as far north as a feller orta go.

Well, P and P, I can't understand anyone's choosing to live more than 1/4 mile east of the North Pacific.
A real case of "to each his own"...

I stepped briefly into the Pacific. It's cold. The Gulf is warm. Nuf sed.

nuf said indeed. Whenever it tries to warm up here (above 70), a delicious dank darkness develops and covers my house.
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