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Word: gittin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...still got our old copper kittle an she's 30 gallons if she's a spoon-full. Gittin bout time to bring her out now and bout the time this gets to you we'll be stirrin ourselves to stir up our supply of the best so of fillin that God ever invented with fresh bread. Hopin youre the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...call me "backwoods" for presuming to call your hand on the misuse of the descriptive adjective, and you'd probably be right, but I ain't a-gonna stand by and let you brand a progressive organization that serves a progressive public as "backwoods," 'thout gittin' my dander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...fall o' the year, with the air so dang full o' haze that it looks like a lot o' spiders has been stringin' their webs around. Warm soft air, an' still it's got a bite in it, too. The days is gittin' late. Purty soon it'll be time to git out the old houn'-dog an' start out after coons, some o' these frosty nights, or maybe git a possum up a persimmon tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ozarks | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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