Today I was eating some chow
Where I chanced to run into a sow
I'd once dated. She said,
"Hey! Last week I saw Fred!"
"Oh, really? Well, wha'd he allow?"
That is a southern colloquialism that's rarely heard nowadays (so is 'nowadays,' I suppose.) Today we might say, "What did he have to say?" You may remember that Mark Twain often described what had been said with, "He 'lowed as how..." As a child, I pronounced it 'lo' and wondered what it meant.
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