Like, T-Totally

Mr. Stallman jestingly called himself a teetotaler on Friday evening when he requested a mug and boiling water for the tea he brought. Writing up a blog post this evening from my notes, Dawn and I looked up the word on dictionary.com.

Apparently, some evidence exists that Kentuckians used the phrase T-totally:

...(T-totally "totally," not in an abstinence sense, is recorded in Kentucky dialect from 1832 and is possibly older in Irish-Eng.).

For example, "The perfume from those fleurs t-totally fills the house." (fleurs == flowers)

Others:

1832 “[Kentucky backwoodsman says] These Mingoes . . . ought to be essentially, and particularly, and TEE-TOTALLY obflisticated off of the face of the whole yearth.”—‘Legends of West Philidelphia by Judge Jas. Hall, page 38

1836 “I hope I may be TEE-TOTALLY ruinated, if I'd take eight hundred dollars for him.”—‘The Clockmaker’ (1837) by Haliburton, xix., page 195

1840 “A man in Bedlam is a very useless member of society, and a TEE-TOTAL non-productive.”— Olla Podrida (Diary on the Continent) by Marryat

The Mingos in question, of course, being the tribe forcefully relocated first to Ohio, then to Oklahoma. :P

Apparently it's still in use, though slightly archaic:

Nalo, "teetotally" is used here in Kentucky (a bit east of AY-thens and Ver-SALES), as in "I teetotally don't care at all to do that," meaning "I am totally willing to do that." It's not used often; it's used a little self-consciously as slightly archaic; but it still exists, while in the rest of the world "teetotaller" is the only surviving instance.