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"REGIONAL NOTE "Fixing to" ranks with y'all as one of the best known markers of Southern dialects, although it occasionally appears in the informal speech and writing of nonSoutherners as well. Fixing to means "to be on the verge of or in preparation for (doing a given thing)," but like the modal auxiliaries, it has only a single invariant form and is not fully inflected like other verbs. Its form is always the present participle followed by the infinitive marker to: They were "fixing" to leave without me.Nononsense