Hitten, as in You’ve hitten every green light, sounds nonstandard today, but it has company. Kendall in Highland, Utah, a native Texan whose wife is from British Columbia, uses it as a past participle of hit. Charles Mackay’s 1888 A Dictionary of...
Michael in Morgantown, Kentucky, is pondering his grandfather’s phrase He fotched a heave and catched a fall meaning someone “made a quick bodily movement and fell.” Fotched is a dialectal past tense of fetch. This is part of a complete episode...