It develops/turns out
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9:30 .AM. Seven barrels of picking crabs and two baskets of Jimmies……Can now make out the northernmost marshes of Smith Island, a flat pencil line of dark gray against the lighter grays of sea and sky.
Grant Corbin, it develops, was born on Smith Island.
William Warner, Beautiful Swimmers: Waterman, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay
Could you explain the meaning of “it develops” here? What is the difference between it turns out and it develops?
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The book you're reading seems to go out of its way to include Chesapeake dialect, and this might be part of it. I haven't heard that "develop" in a while. I would not use it in standard writing or any speech.
- The book you're reading seems to go out of its way to include Chesapeake dialect, and this might be part of it.
- I haven't heard that "develop" in a while.
- I would not use it in standard writing or any speech.
- It is like "turns out".
- The idea is that you didn't know at first, and you are a little surprised to hear.
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The book you're reading seems to go out of its way to include Chesapeake dialect, and this might be part of it. I haven't heard that "develop" in a while. I would not use it in standard writing or any speech. It is like "turns out". The idea is that you didn't know at first, and you are a little surprised to hear.
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