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Where's that at?


------- the [at] at the end gives a Folksy feel
(Southern US, or mid-Western (down to earth) (or "hick") feel


---- Maybe also... there's a connotation of Non-Permanence.
that something was put there recently (like a Sign-post)
----- unlike a mountain that's been there for centuries.


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A visitor (played by Joe Pesci) to Harvard Univ. stops a student.

“Can you tell me where the library’s at?”

“At Harvard, we do not end a sentence with a preposition,” the student upbraids him.
The visitor thinks about it for a moment and rephrases his question.
“Can you tell me where the library’s at, asshole?”


------------- from the movie "With Honors," featuring Joe
Pesci. In this film, he plays a homeless man who interacts with Harvard students, leading to various humorous and poignant moments.


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>>> In Somerset, one of the few lingering regional dialect
quirks that you'll encounter frequently is the use of the preposition
"to" at the end of a question.

For example if The Wurzels were to cover the Scottish folk
song "Donald Where's Your Troosers?" it would be called "Where's
Donald's Trousers To?"



---------- In Devon too. There's the question "Where are you going
to?", and also phrases like "At the end of the road where the pub is
to."

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