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PAUL DOIRON is the editor in chief of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, Down East Books, and DownEast.com. A native of Maine, he attended Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in English and he holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. Paul is a Registered Maine Guide and lives on a trout stream in coastal Maine with his wife, Kristen Lindquist.
Monday, July 26, 2010 at 1:03PM Another in my occasional series of Down East colloquialisms:
PRIT'NEAR: Just about, almost. As in, "Melvin prit'near had a heart attack when he saw the bill for that pantsuit I bought over at Reny's."
Maine Lingo 
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