I've seen it used by New Yorkers and Southerners and Californians alike. It's a word that seems like a ruralism, but evades being pinned down as such. As a regionalism... no, not so much.
Movie Venkman would, RGB Venkman wouldn't (but both Rays and neither Egon). Sheriff Carter... probably. Captain Jack, definitely not.
And I agree with scarfman; Shatner-Kirk wouldn't say it (the word being beneath the dignity of a Starfleet officer), but Pine-Kirk would (fuck dignity, it's my world and you all just live in it).
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Date: 2009-07-14 04:15 pm (UTC)Movie Venkman would, RGB Venkman wouldn't (but both Rays and neither Egon). Sheriff Carter... probably. Captain Jack, definitely not.
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